Aza

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 25K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 35K

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.

Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,500 people, est.

Sources
122 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aza 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.

Where Aza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DO Dominican Republic#197≈4,500 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Aza35
CO Colombia—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 25K—Aza56
PE Peru—≈920 est.≈1 in 35K—Aza48
ES Spain—5961 in 84K596Aza74
VE Venezuela—≈320 est.≈1 in 89K—Aza24

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aza is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Äžã, Åžå, Åžã, Ážà, Åza

  • Georgian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written აზა, žâ

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Аза, Åza, Åžã, žâ

  • Indonesian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Aza, Àźà, žâ, Äžã, Àza

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written žâ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Azà

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aza is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Comodidad

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • powerful

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In Kurdish, Valiant, heroic and brave

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Russian, "strong."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Yoruba, alternative form of ajá (“dog”)

    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)

1800190020002100Alejandro Aza, b. 1801Vital Aza Álvarez-Buylla, b. 1851José Pío Aza, b. 1865Bernardo Aza y González Escalada, b. 1887Miguel Solano Aza, b. 1922Alberto Aza Arias, b. 1937Hibai Arbide, b. 1979Marta Huerta de Aza, b. 1990Héctor Aza, b. 2000Sephora Aza, b. 2004

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 53 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Aza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—596#6,950
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—596#6,940

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

What does the name Aza mean, and where does it come from?
A nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Aza have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Aza in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aza.
How common is the name Aza?
In Spain, the national register counted 596 people named Aza, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
How common is Aza compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Aza is the 197th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Aza” — the 197th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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