Zisu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zisu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zisu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 625as 지수(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 594Kas Jisoo
- MOMacao≈1 in 6.2Kas 지수
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 Zisu 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 625 (inferred from the name graph)
≈83,000 named 지수, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 지수
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jisoo in US United States, BR Brazil, CN China and 1 more, 지수 in KR South Korea, MO Macao and Jisu in KP North Korea.
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)
< gr. Zijaoc, < sa traie§til". 1. -(Arh ; I Div) ; -ar. (Cara 96) ; -/, Carapan (Sd XXII 190). 2. Zisd b (Ant Ar) ; Zisa b., ar. (Fans). 3. Zi§u/ 1466, vlah, Serbia (0 Dens I 396).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zisu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #74 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 625 | 257 | 지수 | 109 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Jisoo | 8 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Jisu | 8 |
| US United States | — | 560as Jisoo | 1 in 594K | 446 | Jisoo | 142 |
| BR Brazil | — | 114as Jisue | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | Jisoo | 8 |
| MO Macao | #155 | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | 지수 | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Jisoo | 9 |
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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
- Ionuț-Elie Zisub. 1964RORomanian politician
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Zisu?
- A machine transcription gives /zisu/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zisu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named 지수 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zisu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 560 people named Jisoo in 2020, about 1 in 594 thousand residents.
- How common is Zisu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Zisu is the 74th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zisuThe 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, “Zisu” — the 74th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.