Rizó
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular preterite indicative of rizar (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Rizó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 59th most common surname. Rizó is also written 리조 in Korean (Hangul).
- NINicaragua≈1 in 420(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 4.9K
- MXMexico≈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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rizó itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 415 (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Rizó in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rizo in MX Mexico, NI Nicaragua, US United States and 4 more.
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)third-person singular preterite indicative of rizar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Rizó is found
(measured from records)Rizó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #662 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 284 | Rizo | 151 |
| US United States | — | 18,605as Rizzo | 1 in 18K | 19K | Rizo | 278 |
| NI Nicaragua | #59 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 415 | — | Rizo | 39 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,514as Rizzo | 1 in 25K | 8.5K | Rizo | 67 |
| AR Argentina | — | 6,128as Rizzo | 1 in 7.4K | 6.1K | Rizo | 46 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,270as Rizzo | 1 in 3.2K | 5.3K | Rizo | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,638 | 1 in 19K | 2.6K | Rizo | 115 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,054as Rijo | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,583as Rizzo | 1 in 5.3K | 1.6K | — | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,041 | 1 in 4.9K | 1K | — | 26 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rizó mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular preterite indicative of rizar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rizó?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Rizó in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizo. After it come United States, Nicaragua, Brazil and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rizó?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,638 people named Rizó, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Rizó compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Rizó is the 662nd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rizó?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riz%C3%B3The 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, “Rizó” — ranked 964th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.