Niza
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nice (a coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries
/ˈni.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Niza is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 32Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 76K
- UYUruguay1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Nice (a coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Niza | 15 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Niza | 33 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Niza | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 418 | 1 in 506K | 573 | Niza | 64 |
| US United States | 364 | 1 in 914K | 351 | Niza | 109 |
| CL Chile | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 1 | Niza | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | — | 5 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Niza is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, genitive singular of niz
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)- Niza de Castro Tankb. 1931BRBrazilian opera singer
- Niza Jay Ncoyinib. 1995ZASouth African actor
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)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,348 |
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
- What does the name Niza mean, and where does it come from?
- Nice (a coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Niza?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈni.sa/ (Wiktionary); in Malay /niza/; in Portuguese /nizɐ/; in Indonesian /niza/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Niza a male or female name?
- Niza is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Niza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Niza in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niza.
- How common is the name Niza?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 418 people named Niza in 2022, about 1 in 506 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nizaThe 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, “Niza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.