Entry № 9779 · English origin

Sissy Sissy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIS-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Sister (Sissy Spacek, Best Actress Oscar; Empress Sissi)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "sister (sissy spacek, best actress oscar; empress sissi)".

The 1955 Austrian Sissi film trilogy starring Romy Schneider was the most-watched German-language film series of its era. Sissy Goodwin — pioneering trans-rights educator. Sissi (musical) — Austrian production.

Subject of countless Austrian-Hungarian Empire histories.

Sister. Sissy Spacek's Oscar for Coal Miner's Daughter; Empress Sissi was Europe's most-mythologized empress.

The name in its native script.

Sissy
Transliteration
Sissy
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪs.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sissy stands.

Sissy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sissys before her.

Real people
Sissy Spacek
American Oscar actress.
born 1949
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Austro-Hungarian empress.
1837 – 1898
In fiction
Sissi
Sissi Austrian film trilogy.
1955

Names connected to Sissy.

The number behind Sissy.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sissy reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.