Bís

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bís is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. Recorded meaning: Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

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  • BRBrazil

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bis in BR Brazil.

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)

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

Sources 4

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bís counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Bís is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—1.1KBis54
PL Poland—1K——
US United States—358—31
CZ Czechia—204——
ES Spain—64—29

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bís is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Bis

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bís
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—5#122,382

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bís mean, and where does it come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and A Frequency Dictionary of German and 2 other sources.
In which country does Bís have the most bearers?
Bís is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled bis.

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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, “Bís”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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