Rizu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rizu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 7M
- USUnited States≈1 in 32M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Rizu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 32M | listed | Rizu | 9 |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | — | Rizu | 27 |
| PL Poland | — | — | 2 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Rizu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, accusative singular of riza
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Rizu Iwasakib. 1976JPJapanese novelist and screenwriter
- Rizu Suzukib. 1985JPJapanese AV director
- Lizu Maekawab. 2004JPnot in their usual nameJapanese gravure idol and actress
- Liz Akamab. 2009JPnot in their usual nameJapanese skateboarder
- Rizu SawashiroJPJapanese seiyū
- Liz TakayamaJPnot in their usual nameJapanese light novelist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1960 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1952 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Rizu a male or female name?
- Rizu is a male 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.
- In which country does Rizu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 people named Rizu in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizu.
- Where is Rizu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rizu is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rizu?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Rizu in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rizuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rizu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.