biSa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: venom: a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
biSa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 1M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- ESSpain1 in 1.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
45 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
venom: a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
biSa 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.
45 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling bisa. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
biSa 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 Malay, Extremely painful.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Greatly loved
as a nameThe book of African names
In Yoruba, MEANING - lotus plant
as a wordYorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
In bbc, animal poison; also used of poisonous animals such as snakes, caterpillars, scorpions, insects, as well as the externally applied poison prepared by a shaman (in contrast with , which must be imbibed)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Sundanese, can, able to, smart, knowledgeable, capable, experienced, have an understanding of, knowledgeable
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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(measured from records)
- Josep Antoni Homs i Bisab. 1897ESSpanish sculptor, drawer
- Josef Bisab. 1908CHSwiss sculptor (1908-1976)
- Ingrid Bisab. 1978ITItalian 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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1959 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1987 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1964 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1988 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name biSa mean, and where does it come from?
- venom: a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce biSa?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪsə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does biSa have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 45 people named biSa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled biSa.
- Where is biSa most common?
- biSa is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name biSa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 45 people named biSa, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bisaThe 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, “biSa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.