Zissis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zizsɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zissis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Ζήσης (Zísis).
- GRGreece≈1 in 138Kas Ζήσης(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 182K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
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 Zissis 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77 named Ζήσης, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ζησης in GR Greece.
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Greek Ζήσης (Zísis).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zissis 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.
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #34,979 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #86,992 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zissis mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Ζήσης (Zísis). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zissis?
- A machine transcription gives /zizsɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zissis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 people named Ζήσης in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zissis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zissis is densest in Norway — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zissis?
- In Norway, the national register counted 30 people named Zissis, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zissis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zissisThe 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, “Zissis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.