Tz
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tz is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 2Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.2Mfew records
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled T'Z in NG Nigeria.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | T'Z | 6 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Tz | 63 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Tz | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Tz | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Tz | 14 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 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: 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tz is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tanzania.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of time zone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "[Interjección] de disentimiento: tz (aspirado) (V-ger-arrig)" A Morf 729.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Tanzānija, valsts divburtu kods
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)- Yang Zib. 1988CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Tz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Tz in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled t'z. After it come United States, Netherlands, Austria and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tz?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Tz, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tz?
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/tzThe 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, “Tz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.