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The Sisti surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 730 people carried this name — #31,656 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 400,000 people counted. That is down 14% from 844 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Sisti surname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Patronymic surname from the personal name Sisto.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Sisti» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 755 people named Sisti live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 435
Santiago del Estero 97
Mendoza 86
City of Buenos Aires 44
Córdoba 30
Santa Fe 27
Salta 25
Tucumán 11

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 94 people named Sisti.

18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Corsica.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 18
Corsica 60
Moselle 5
Vaucluse 3
Isère 2
Bouches-du-Rhône 2
Haute-Corse 1
Drôme 1
Rhône 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

50 people named Sisti live in Switzerland.

They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Thurgau.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Thurgau 15
Basel-Landschaft 11
Ticino 8
Basel-Stadt 7
Zurich 6
Bern 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

Who carried it

People named Sisti,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Romeo Sisti d. 1971 · rower
  • Gennaro Sisti 1700–1782 · teacher
  • Francesco Sisti 1932–2021 · translator
  • Francesco Sisti 1932–2021 · translator
  • Michelan Sisti 1949– · actor
  • Fulvio Sisti 1955–1998 · singer

Wikidata (CC0).

When the index is not enough

This page says where Sisti is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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