Miza
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 5.7K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 182K
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 Miza 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mysa in PH Philippines.
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(measured from records)
1° sto, trpeza, 2° (Hvar) hrana kao plaća ribarima najamnicima za lov srdjela
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #891 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Miza | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Miza | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Miza | 53 |
| BR Brazil | — | 141 | 1 in 1.5M | 141 | Miza | 29 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 811K | — | Mysa | 16 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Miza | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Miza | 12 |
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: 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)
Miza is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, tree bark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to bet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, table
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, 1° sto, trpeza, 2° (Hvar) hrana kao plaća ribarima najamnicima za lov srdjela
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Romanian, MIZÁ, mizez, vb. I. Tranz. 1. A depune ca miză; a juca pe...; a ponta. 2. Fig. A conta pe..., a se bizui pe.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, kokmateriālu pārstrādes blakusprodukts, ko iegūst sausā vai slapjā mizošanā un kas pēc struktūras un īpašībām atšķiras no dabiskās koku mizas
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)
- Miza Bakari Hajib. 1972TZTanzanian politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #102,017 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Miza?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪzə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Miza a male or female name?
- Miza is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Miza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Miza in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miza.
- How common is the name Miza?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 141 people named Miza in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Miza compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Miza is the 891st most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Miza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mizaThe 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, “Miza” — the 891st most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.