Dza

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 1.8M(inferred from the name graph)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 2M
  • DEGermany≈1 in 6.9M

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈120 people, est.

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Dza 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.

Where Dza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈120 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Dza5
IN India≈40 est.≈1 in 34M—Dza10
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M24—1
MY Malaysia≈17 est.≈1 in 2M—Dza4
DE Germany≈12 est.≈1 in 6.9M—Dza12

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dza is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dzä, Dža

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Dža

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ghana, Nigeria

    Also written Dzã

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Dża

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dza 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.

  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Algeria.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mfh, person, human being

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Nyanja, come

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In wuu, IncilbUS

    as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

  • In Latvian, Alžīrija, valsts trīsburtu kods

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Dza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#173,031

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Dza have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 119 people named Dza in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dza.
How common is the name Dza?
In Brazil, the national register counted 24 people named Dza, about 1 in 8.8 million residents.

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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, “Dza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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