Lizana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Basque Lizama
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lisana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lizana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4K
- ESSpain1 in 27K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Basque Lizama.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lizana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #523 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Lizana | 59 |
| CL Chile | #255 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | Lizana | 102 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,869 | 1 in 27K | 1.9K | Lizana | 104 |
| US United States | — | 793 | 1 in 419K | 793 | Lizana | 113 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 371K | 108 | Lizana | 28 |
| AR Argentina | — | 293 | 1 in 155K | 293 | Lizana | 36 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Lizana | 7 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Lizana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, feminine nominative/vocative singular of lizany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, inflection of lizati:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "(AN-gip), canutos de hilo que se mueven en el telar" A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Carlos Clavería Lizanab. 1909ESSpanish scholar of classical literature (1909–1974)
- Anita Lizanab. 1915CLChilean tennis player (1915–1994)
- Ángel Acuñab. 1919MXnot in their usual nameMexican basketball player (born 1919)
- Mártires Lizana Santosb. 1973PEPeruvian politician
- Antonio Lizanab. 1986ESSpanish musician
- Valentina Lizanab. 1990SESwedish ice hockey player
- Santiago Lizanab. 1992CLChilean association football player
- Amparo Chuquivalb. 1992PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
- Tomás Lizanab. 1992CLChilean association football player
- Patrick LizanaFRFrench actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #2,561 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #2,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 793 | #29,693 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 790 | #31,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 753 | #29,543 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 293 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 Lizana mean, and where does it come from?
- of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Basque Lizama. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lizana?
- A machine transcription gives /lisana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lizana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Lizana in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lizana.
- How common is the name Lizana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,869 people named Lizana, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Lizana compared with other names?
- In Peru, Lizana is the 523rd most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lizana?
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/lizanaThe 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, “Lizana” — the 523rd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.