Mirza
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miɾza/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mirza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 22nd most common given name.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 267(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.5K
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 Mirza 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 267 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mirja 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)
Persian title meaning 'lord, prince'; as female name, 'lady, princess'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mirza is read(measured from records)
Mirza is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish19%
1. İranlılara özgü "beyzade" anlamında bir soyluluk sanı. 2. Bir yıldızın adı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Urdu16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mirza in Urdu.
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mirza in Hindi.
- English11%
An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.8%
Persian title meaning 'lord, prince'; as female name, 'lady, princess'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mirza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #135 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Mirza | 127 |
| BD Bangladesh | #333 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mirza | 98 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #22 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 267 | 32 | Mirza | 45 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,572as Mirja | 1 in 411 | 21K | Mirja | 5 |
| AF Afghanistan | #90 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Mirza | 15 |
| US United States | — | 3,058 | 1 in 109K | 6.2K | Mirza | 357 |
| GE Georgia | #273 | 2,497as მირზა | 1 in 1.6K | 2.5K | Mirza | 39 |
| BH Bahrain | #79 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mirza | 34 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. 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)
Mirza is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name based on the Persian honorific title MTrzd, a shortened form of mir-zadeh ‘child of a prince’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Muslim name, from Persian: ‘prince’, an honorific title introduced into the subcontinent by the Moguls.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Mirza kommer från ett persiskt ord som betyder ’prins; fursteson’. Det används även frekvent i Bosnien, Indien och Pakistan.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Abbas Mirzab. 1789IRQajar crown prince
- Mirza Ghalibb. 1797INIndian poet (1797-1869)
- Amir Kabirb. 1807IRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Iran (1807-1852)
- Mirza Fatali Akhundovb. 1812AZIranian Azerbaijani playwright and literary critic
- Nasrollah Khan Moshir al Dowlehb. 1840IRnot in their usual namefirst Iranian Prime Minister (1840-1907)
- Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmadb. 1889INReligious leader of the Ahmadiyya faith (1889–1965)
- Mirza Aslam Begb. 1931PKPakistani general
- Mirza Delibašićb. 1954BABosnian basketball player and coach (1954-2001)
- Mirza Teletovićb. 1985BABosnian basketball player
- Mirza Bašićb. 1991BABosnian tennis player
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 91 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #5,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 960 | #5,561 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 113 | #2,805 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 61 | #4,426 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 33 | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 32 | #72 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- 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
- Where does the name Mirza come from?
- Persian title meaning 'lord, prince'; as female name, 'lady, princess' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Mirza?
- A machine transcription gives /miɾza/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Mirza mean?
- In English, An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.
- Is Mirza a male or female name?
- Mirza is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mirza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 226 thousand people named Mirza in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mirza.
- How common is the name Mirza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,058 people named Mirza in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Mirza compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Mirza is the 135th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mirzaThe 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, “Mirza” — the 135th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.