Niz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Niz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 4.9K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 11K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
9,295 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
Niz 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.
9,295 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Niz 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 Polish, Middle Polish form of niż (“low, depression”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, down, along (in a constant direction with or opposite another; = dȕž, ȕzdūž, pȍkraj)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zab, corncob
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, hinab
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Breton, neveu
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Gabriel Nizb. 1950ARArgentinian rower
- Adriano Nizb. 1986PTPortuguese swimmer
- Germán Nizb. 1996ARArgentinian association football player
- Gustavo NizGBresearcher
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 9.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.5K | #1,841 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
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 Niz have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Niz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niz.
- Where is Niz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niz is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Niz?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 9,295 people named Niz, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Niz compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Niz is the 557th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nizThe 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, “Niz” — the 557th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.