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Rissi

Rissi. Attested in United States of America, Spain, Italy, borne by about 245 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Risi

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

RissRassiRiesiRissaRisseRissoRossi

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

Q37228786 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being RisiRisi — 8
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Risi Italy pop. 8 a spelling of the name
  • Riesi Italy pop. 11,503 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Rossi Italy pop. 364 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Rossi Australia pop. 92 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Rissa Italy only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Risse United States of America only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 3 countries: United States of America, Spain, ItalyItaly — 9 peopleSpain — 70 peopleUnited States of America — 166 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 3 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

United States of America

166 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

348,401 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1870s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s — the decades Rissi is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Rissi. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Censuses and population lists. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

Spain

70 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

6,970 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1770s, 1910s, 1930s, 1950s and 2000s — the decades Rissi is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Rissi. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Censuses and population lists. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

Italy

9 Borne — a state counted them — Italian comuni publishing their residents' surnames as open data, indexed by the national catalogue dati.gov.it..

Whose archive to write to

1,288,902 of 1,288,913 volumes held for Italy overlap the 1350s, 1400s, 1410s, 1430s, 1460s, 1470s, 1500s, 1510s, 1520s, 1530s, 1540s, 1570s, 1580s, 1590s, 1600s, 1610s, 1620s, 1630s, 1640s, 1650s, 1660s, 1670s, 1680s, 1690s, 1700s, 1710s, 1720s, 1730s, 1740s, 1750s, 1760s, 1770s, 1780s, 1790s, 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s — the decades Rissi is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Rissi. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Italy →

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

United States of America
Italy
  • Carnia, Friuli 6 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Campania — Caserta and Naples 5 eras Kingdom of Naples → Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Eastern Sicily — Catania 4 eras Kingdom of Sicily → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Kingdom of Italy → Italy
  • Calabria 4 eras Kingdom of Naples → Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples → Kingdom of the Two Sicilies → Italy
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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