Hissa
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hissa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Forgiveness, pardon.
- EGEgypt1 in 871◐
- QAQatar1 in 2.3K
- BHBahrain1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29 ●
- Sources
- 71 ●
- 1 in 7.3M ◐
across 1 country
2.0K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
Forgiveness, pardon.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #90 | 45,054 | 12 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 8 |
| QA Qatar | #155 | 1,002 | 542 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 43 |
| KW Kuwait | #466 | 350 | 118 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 120 | 50 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 28 |
| SY Syria | — | 120 | 132 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 4 |
| US United States | — | 119 | 683 rec. | — | listed | Hissa | 71 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 104 | 87 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 34 |
| BH Bahrain | #144 | 91 | 19 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 11 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 38 | 51 rec. | — | — | Hissa | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 34 | 62 rec. | — | listed | Hissa | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 29△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 7.3M | 468 | Hissa | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 16 | 24 rec. | — | listed | Hissa | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English45K93%
- Arabic2K4%
- Portuguese5041%
- French2391%
- Turkish1951%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 45,132 | 93% |
| Arabic | 1,951 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 504 | 1% |
| French | 239 | 1% |
| Turkish | 195 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hissa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of hisser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to hoist (raise with ropes or the like)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, history (school subject)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, share, portion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, surprised
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Azzeddine Hissab. 1982MAMoroccan association football player
- Ana Hissab. 1983BRBrazilian journalist and presenter
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 468 | #18,081 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 383 | #8,622 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 182 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 74 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,700 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 22 | #56,336 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #84,712 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #179,107 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 18 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hissa?
- We estimate roughly 29 people bear Hissa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Hissa have the most bearers?
- Hissa is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled hissa.
- How common is Hissa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hissa is the 90th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Hissa a male or female name?
- Hissa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Hissa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forgiveness, pardon.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Hissa” — the 90th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.