Retez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Retez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈55 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, 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)
Retez 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Retez | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 34M | — | Retez | 11 |
| PE Peru | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Retez | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 2 |
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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Retez is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, diameter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, RETÉZ, reteze, s. n. 1. (Pop.; în expr.) La retezul părului = în locul unde se retează părul; la ceafă. 2. (Înv.) Diametru.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #22,018 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Retez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 people named Retez in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled retez.
- How common is the name Retez?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Retez, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Retez?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/retezThe 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, “Retez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.