Reza
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ciudad de Mexico
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɛzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 917(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 2.4K
- IRIran≈1 in 3.2K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 917 (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ciudad de Mexico
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Reza, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #18 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 917 | — | Reza | 44 |
| IR Iran | #380 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Reza | 146 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Reza | 155 |
| US United States | — | 4,929 | 1 in 67K | 6.5K | Reza | 333 |
| SE Sweden | #345 | 4,301 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.3K | Reza | 70 |
| AT Austria | #684 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 22 | Reza | 64 |
| HR Croatia | — | 746 | 1 in 5.7K | 746 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Reza 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 Swedish, Reza är den persiska formen av ett arabiskt namn, Redha, med betydelsen ’tillfredsställelse, förnöjsamhet’. Riza är en turkisk form. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1919– 80), shah av Iran 1941–79, var en känd namnbärare.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, approval, consent
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, contentment, satisfaction, pleasure,
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In io, even, level with, close to, razed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, the reciting of a given prayer
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)
- Reza Shah Pahlavib. 1878IRShah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- Prince Ali Reza Pahlavib. 1922IRIranian Imperial (1922 - 1954)
- Reza Najib. 1942IRIranian actor
- Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassabb. 1959IRIranian grand ayatollah
- Reza Pahlavib. 1960IRCrown prince of Iran (born 1960)
- Emanuele Filiberto di Savoiab. 1972CHnot in their usual nameHead of the House of Savoy (2024)
- Reza Aslanb. 1972IRIranian-American author, commentator
- Reza Sixo Safaib. 1972USAmerican actor
- Reza Ghoochannejhadb. 1987IRIranian footballer (born 1987)
- Reza Goodaryb. 1988IRPersian martial artist and sport photographer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,623 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Reza mean, and where does it come from?
- Ciudad de Mexico Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Reza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Reza in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reza.
- What are other forms of the name Reza?
- In the etymology graph, Rıza is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Reza?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɛzə/ (IPA) for Persian.
- Is Reza a male or female name?
- Reza 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.
- How common is the name Reza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,929 people named Reza in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Reza compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Reza is the 18th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Reza?
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/rezaThe 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, “Reza” — the 18th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.