Lize
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Statbel, 2024
/liz/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Lize is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 36K
- LVLatvia1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lizë in AL Albania.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lize 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Lize | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,489 | 1 in 6.9K | 2.5K | Lize | 32 |
| AL Albania | #276 | 537 | 1 in 5.7K | 537 | Lizë | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 525 | 1 in 403K | 525 | Lize | 46 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 25 | Lize | 33 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 39 | — | 1 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)Lize 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 cdo, as trade to get people’s custom. -to bring near to one's self; to befriend
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Czech, dative/locative singular of liga
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Plakana koka lāpsta (mīklas veidojuma ievirzīšanai maizes krāsnī un izņemšanai no tās)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Slēpes
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lies Frankenb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch actor (1930–1996)
- Lize Markeb. 1936BEBelgian singer
- Anne Lize van der Stoelb. 1954NLDutch politician (born 1954)
- Lize Beekmanb. 1974ZASouth African musician
- Lize Accoeb. 1981BEBelgian singer
- Lize Weerdenburgb. 1987NLDutch speed skater, skier and track and field athlete, medal winner at Special Olympics competitions
- Lize Spitb. 1988BEwriter
- Lize Broekxb. 1992BEBelgian kayaker
- Lize Ferynb. 1993BEBelgian television actress and model
- Lize van Leeuwenb. 2003NLdiver
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)Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Lize?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lize?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /liz/; in Dutch /lɪzə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Lize a male or female name?
- Lize is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Albania (INSTAT Albania), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Lize have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Lize in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lize.
- Where is Lize most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lize is densest in Albania — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lize?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,489 people named Lize, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Lize compared with other names?
- In Albania, Lize is the 276th most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lize?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lizeThe 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, “Lize” — the 276th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.