Murtuza
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Murtuza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 22K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 44K
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 Murtuza 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Mortaza, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mortaza in US United States, AF Afghanistan and Mortuza in BD Bangladesh.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murtuza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #532 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Mortaza | 9 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mortuza | 40 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Murtuza | 19 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Murtuza | 42 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Murtuza | 5 |
| US United States | — | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 170 | Mortaza | 117 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Murtuza | 11 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Murtuza | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Morteza Neydavoudb. 1900IRnot in their usual nameIranian musician
- Morteza Motahharib. 1919IRnot in their usual nameIranian politician (1919-1979)
- Murtaza Rajimovb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician, former President of the Republic of Bashkortostan (1933–2023)
- Morteza Alvirib. 1948IRnot in their usual nameIranian politician
- Murtaza Bhuttob. 1954PKnot in their usual namePakistani politician (1954-1996)
- Morteza Asadib. 1979IRnot in their usual nameIranian footballer
- Morteza Mahjoobb. 1980IRnot in their usual nameIranian chess player
- Morteza Pashaeib. 1984IRnot in their usual nameIranian singer and composer
- Morteza Mehrzadb. 1987IRnot in their usual nameIranian volleyball player
- Morteza Pouraliganjib. 1992IRnot in their usual nameIranian footballer
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Is Murtuza a male or female name?
- Murtuza is a male 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 Murtuza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Mortaza in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Murtuza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 171 people named Murtuza in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Murtuza compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Murtuza is the 532nd most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/murtuzaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Murtuza” — the 532nd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.