Rizal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A barangay of Dagami, Leyte, Philippines
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rˈizal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rizal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.8K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rizal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, 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)
A barangay of Dagami, Leyte, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rizal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #158 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | #37 | Rizal | 210 |
| MY Malaysia | #165 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Rizal | 77 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Rizal | 37 |
| SG Singapore | #955 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Rizal | 41 |
| US United States | — | 279 | 1 in 1.2M | 667 | Rizal | 101 |
| GE Georgia | — | 22as რიზალ | 1 in 182K | 22 | Rizal | 3 |
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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Rizal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, prov, Philippines
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Cebuano, Rizal (a province of Calabarzon, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Antipolo)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, alternative spelling of ricial
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)
- Reezal Merican Naina Mericanb. 1972MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian politician
- Rizal Fadillahb. 1975IDIndonesian badminton player
- Samsul RizalIDacademician and professor of Syiah Kuala University
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 667 | #36,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rizal mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Dagami, Leyte, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rizal?
- A machine transcription gives /rˈizal/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Rizal a male or female name?
- Rizal 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.
- In which country does Rizal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 194 thousand people named Rizal in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizal.
- How common is the name Rizal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 279 people named Rizal in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Rizal compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Rizal is the 158th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rizal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rizalThe 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, “Rizal” — the 158th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.