Zisser
surname · Latin script
/zisɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zisser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 40Kas זיסר(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zisser itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
217 named זיסר, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled זיסר in IL Israel, US United States, RO Romania and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zisser counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 217as זיסר | 1 in 40K | 217 | זיסר | 22 |
| RO Romania | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | זיסר | 2 |
| US United States | 119 | 1 in 2.8M | 126 | זיסר | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | זיסר | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | זיסר | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | זיסר | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | זיסר | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
217 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eyal Ziserb. 1960ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian
- Michael Zisserb. 1966ATAustrian association football player
- Nela Zisserb. 1992NZmodel
- Shirley Sharon-Zisserb. 2000ILProfessor of English Literature at Tel Aviv University. Expert on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 126 | #125,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #71,798 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zisser?
- A machine transcription gives /zisɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zisser have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 217 people named זיסר, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zisser most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zisser is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zisser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 119 people named Zisser in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zisser?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zisserThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zisser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.