Riza
given name · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of rizo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɾiza/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Riza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 193as Lisa
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 214as Lisa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Riza itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #64 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 662 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
864,260 named Lisa, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lisa in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more and Лиза in FI Finland.
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)
feminine singular of rizo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #28 | 864,260as Lisa | 1 in 385 | 864K | Lisa | 662 |
| GB United Kingdom | #35 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 214 | 87 | Lisa | 422 |
| DE Germany | #102 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 519 | — | Lisa | 295 |
| CA Canada | #24 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 248 | 9 | Lisa | 341 |
| IT Italy | #91 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | 202 | Lisa | 195 |
| AU Australia | #27 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | 46 | Lisa | 334 |
| FI Finland | — | 59,387as Liisa | 1 in 94 | 104K | Лиза | 59 |
| TR Türkiye | #78 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Riza | 95 |
| IE Ireland | #19 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 193 | — | Lisa | 185 |
| NZ New Zealand | #25 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 218 | 12 | Lisa | 183 |
864,260 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Riza is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, contented
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Indian Sufi scholar and author of the 12-volume Fatwa-i-Rizvia’”
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In lad, laugh (laughter)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, cassock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, clothe
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)
- Ali Rıza Efendib. 1839GRnot in their usual nameFather of founder of Turkey (1839–1888)
- Hoca Ali Rızab. 1858TRnot in their usual nameTurkish painter (1858–1930)
- Rıza Nurb. 1879TRnot in their usual nameTurkish surgeon, statesperson and writer (1879–1942)
- Riza Lushtab. 1916ALYugoslavian footballer (1916–1997)
- Riza Azizb. 1953MYMalaysian film producer
- Rıza Çalımbayb. 1963TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player and manager (born 1963)
- Sergen Yalçınb. 1972TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player and manager (born 1972)
- Rıza Kocaoğlub. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Rıza Kayaalpb. 1989TRnot in their usual nameTurkish wrestler (born 1989)
- Riza Durmisib. 1994DKDanish footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 829 | #12,025 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 219 | #12,025 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 62 | #4,426 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 52 | #5,287 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 3 | #2,797 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 1 | #20,470 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Riza mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of rizo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Riza a male or female name?
- Riza is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Riza?
- In the etymology graph, Rıza is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Riza?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾiza/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Riza have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 864 thousand people named Lisa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Riza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 864,260 people named Lisa in 2020, about 1 in 385 residents.
- How common is Riza compared with other names?
- In the United States, Riza is the 28th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Riza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rizaThe 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, “Riza” — the 28th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.