Nitza
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Nitzah; Nitzana: weibl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnɪtzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nitza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Puerto Rico than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 233K(measured from records)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 1.9K
- CUCuba≈1 in 6.9K
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.
- Puerto Rico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Nitzah; Nitzana: weibl. Vom. neuhebräischer Herkunft (neuhebr. nitsä »Knospe«).
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nitza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR Puerto Rico | #48 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Nitza | 32 |
| CU Cuba | #134 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Nitza | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,430 | 1 in 233K | 1.4K | Nitza | 186 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Nitza | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Nitza | 1 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Nitza | 7 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | — | 13 |
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; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nitza Rosovskyb. 1934ILIsraeli writer
- Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadarb. 1941ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli mathematics educator (born 1941)
- Nitza Peledb. 1942ILIsraeli painter
- Nitza Metzger-Szmukb. 1945ILIsraeli architect and preservationist
- Nitza Shaulb. 1950ILIsraeli actress
- Nitza Ben-Dovb. 1950ILHebrew literary scholar
- Nitza Margarita Cintronb. 1950USPuerto Rican scientist
- Niza Yanayb. 1951ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli sociologist
- Nitza Peledb. 1956ILAn Israeli poet and Translator
- Nitza TerminILIsraeli singer and musician
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,638 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 13 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nitza?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɪtzə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Nitza mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Nitzah; Nitzana: weibl.
- Is Nitza a male or female name?
- Nitza 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 Nitza?
- In the etymology graph, Nitzan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nitza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Nitza in Puerto Rico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nitza.
- How common is the name Nitza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,430 people named Nitza in 2020, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
- How common is Nitza compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Nitza is the 48th most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nitzaThe 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, “Nitza” — the 48th most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.