Cusi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kusi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cusi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cusi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #575 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Cusi | 54 |
| BO Bolivia | #201 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Cusi | 30 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Cusi | 21 |
| AR Argentina | — | 847 | 1 in 54K | 847 | Cusi | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 452 | 1 in 111K | 452 | Cusi | 65 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cusi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, inflection of cosir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of cūsus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cui, knife
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(measured from records)
- Titu Cusi Yupanquib. 1526PE3rd Emperor Inca of the Kingdom of Vilcabamba and author
- Cusi Huarcayb. 1531PEprincess and queen consort of the Inca Empire
- Giuseppe Cusib. 1780ITItalian engineer and architect
- Guillermo de la Peña Cusib. 1877ESSpanish military personnel
- Bonifacio Quispe Cusib. 1936PEPeruvian politician
- Rubén Condorib. 1957PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Jhon Cusi Huamánb. 1985PEPeruvian long distance runner
- Juan Carlos CusiPEPeruvian herpetologist
- Maria Grazia CusiITresearcher
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 847 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 452 | #8,690 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 452 | #8,684 |
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 Cusi?
- A machine transcription gives /kusi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cusi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Cusi in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cusi.
- How common is the name Cusi?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 847 people named Cusi, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Cusi compared with other names?
- In Peru, Cusi is the 575th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cusi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cusiThe 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, “Cusi” — the 575th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.