Mazou
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mazu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mazou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Niger than in any other country.
- TGTogo≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NENiger≈1 in 11K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 29K
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.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mazou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE Niger | #159 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mazou | 4 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 158 | Mazou | 2 |
| TG Togo | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Mazou | 4 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Mazou | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Mazou | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 138K | listed | Mazou | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Mazou 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 Galician, third-person singular preterite indicative of mazar
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 158 | #2,610 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Mazou?
- A machine transcription gives /mazu/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mazou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Mazou in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazou.
- How common is the name Mazou?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 11 people named Mazou in 2024, about 1 in 764 thousand residents.
- How common is Mazou compared with other names?
- In the Niger, Mazou is the 159th most common surname of 242 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mazou?
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/mazouThe 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, “Mazou” — the 159th most common surname in Niger. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.