Tissa Surname
Approximately 1,866 people bear this surname
Tissa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 1,535 | 1:13,556 | 1,941 |
| Nigeria | 87 | 1:2,036,124 | 71,256 |
| Kenya | 50 | 1:923,598 | 33,552 |
| Algeria | 45 | 1:858,479 | 41,800 |
| Indonesia | 26 | 1:5,086,507 | 239,866 |
| Burkina Faso | 25 | 1:734,084 | 8,477 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Tunisia | 5 | 1:122,125 | 16,050 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
Tissa (23,282) may also be a first name.
Tissa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tissa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tissa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻃﻴﺼﻪ, Hindi: तिस्सा, Russian: Тисса) is held by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Tissa.
How Common Is The Last Name Tissa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 219,249th most frequently used surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 3,905,437 people. Tissa occurs mostly in Asia, where 86 percent of Tissa reside; 83 percent reside in South Asia and 83 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Tissa is also the 33,746th most frequent given name worldwide, held by 23,282 people.
This last name is most numerous in Sri Lanka, where it is borne by 1,535 people, or 1 in 13,556. Excluding Sri Lanka this surname is found in 32 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 5 percent reside and Kenya, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tissa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tissa in the Hindi language | ||
| तिस्सा | tis'sa | - |
| Tissa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻃﻴﺼﻪ | tysh | 52.73 |
| ﺍﻟﻄﻴﺼﻪ | altysh | 23.64 |
| ﺍﻟﻄﻴﺺ | altys | 3.64 |
| ﺍﻟﻄﻴﺴﻪ | altysh | 3.64 |
| ﻃﻴﺲ | tys | 3.64 |
| Tissa in the Russian language | ||
| Тисса | tissa | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tissa
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