Nilza
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nilza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 50th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 13K
- MZMozambique≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
69,114 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nilza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #308 | 69,114 | 1 in 3.1K | 80K | Nilza | 118 |
| MZ Mozambique | #50 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Nilza | 22 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Nilza | 13 |
| PT Portugal | #861 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Nilza | 37 |
| PY Paraguay | #859 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nilza | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | #454 | 413 | 1 in 8.2K | 413 | Nilza | 15 |
69,114 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Nilza Magrassib. 1918BRBrazilian actor
- Nilza Teixeira Soaresb. 1926BRBrazilian librarian
- Nilza Fischer de Mattosb. 1931BRBrazilian botanist
- Nilza Monte Garciab. 1942BRBrazilian basketball player
- Nilza Maria de Jesus Biscaia Pintob. 1958BRperson identified in the Museu da Pessoa collection
- Nilza Terezinha Figueiredob. 1960BRpolitician from Brazil
- Nilza Monteirob. 1967BRBrazilian model and actress
- Nilza Chacónb. 1975PEPeruvian politician
- Nilza de Senab. 1976PTPortuguese politician of the 3rd republic
- Nilza Wangmob. 1979INIndian restaurant owner
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #3,793 |
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
- Is Nilza a male or female name?
- Nilza 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 Nilza have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 69 thousand people named Nilza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nilza.
- How common is the name Nilza?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 69,114 people named Nilza in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Nilza compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Nilza is the 308th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nilza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nilzaThe same 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), 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, “Nilza” — the 308th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.