Mazuz

surname · Latin script

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

Mazuz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iraq than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael1 in 3.5Kas מזוז(measured from records)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 6.1K
  • LYLibya≈1 in 21K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mazuz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Iraq (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 named מזוז, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MazuzLatin(measured from records)
מזוזHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled מזוז in IL Israel, TN Tunisia, IQ Iraq and 2 more.

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mazuz 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 Mazuz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IQ Iraq#416≈3,700 est.≈1 in 10K—מזוז1
IL Israel#4132,494as מזוז1 in 3.5K2.5Kמזוז42
TN Tunisia#187≈1,900 est.≈1 in 6.1K—מזוז2
LY Libya—≈330 est.≈1 in 21K—מזוז2
MA Morocco—≈75 est.≈1 in 471K—Mazuz3
QA Qatar—≈25 est.≈1 in 97K—מזוז1

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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)

Mazuz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Libya, Egypt, Israel, Morocco

    Also written Mažuž

24 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Shelomoh Mazuz, b. 1908Mazliah Mazuz, b. 1911Alter Mazoz, b. 1932Meir Mazuz, b. 1945Zemach Mazuz, b. 1947Menachem Mazuz, b. 1955Yaron Mazuz, b. 1962

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 2 sources across 1 country.

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

In which country does Mazuz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named מזוז in Iraq, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Mazuz?
In Israel, the national register counted 2,494 people named מזוז in 2017, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Mazuz compared with other names?
In Iraq, Mazuz is the 416th most common surname of 30,136 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, “Mazuz” — the 416th most common surname in Iraq. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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