Muzi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: do nome lat. Mucius; se define com fq

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

Muzi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Eswatini it is the 60th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SZEswatini≈1 in 3.5K
  • CNChina≈1 in 157K

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈13,000 people, est.

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Eswatini, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Catalan

do nome lat. Mucius; se define com fq. Mucii

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Muzi 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 Muzi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Muzi47
CN China—≈8,900 est.≈1 in 157K—Muzi9
ID Indonesia—≈730 est.≈1 in 364K—Muzi32
SZ Eswatini#60≈310 est.≈1 in 3.5K28Muzi10
MY Malaysia—≈61 est.≈1 in 532K—Muzi14
CH Switzerland—≈18 est.≈1 in 478K3Muzi3
SE Sweden—81 in 1.3M8——

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: Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Muzi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, South Africa, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Muzí

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, South Africa

    Also written Muzï, Mùžī

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Also written Mu-Zi

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Müzi

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, South Africa

    Also written Müzí

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mu-Zi

39 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Muzi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Muzzi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular imperative of mȕsti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of musen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hausa, simpleton

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tum, village

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Percy Taub. 1994ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African association football player

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 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Muzi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#87,052

Reference works 3

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Muzi mean?
Recorded meaning: do nome lat. Mucius; se define com fq.
Is Muzi a male or female name?
Muzi 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 Muzi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Muzi in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muzi.
How common is the name Muzi?
In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Muzi, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
How common is Muzi compared with other names?
In Eswatini, Muzi is the 60th most common given name of 181 given names 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, “Muzi” — the 60th most common given name in Eswatini. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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