Rizos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pers. name. Mod (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/riθos/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rizos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Rizos is also written Ριζος in Greek.
- GRGreece≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 145K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 400Kfew records
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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Rizos in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ριζος in GR Greece.
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.
How to pronounce Rizos
- Spanish:/riθos/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Greek:/ɾizos/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swedish:/risus/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pers. name. Mod. Greek
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where the surname Rizos is found
(measured from records)Rizos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 19 | Ριζος | 72 |
| ES Spain | 346 | 1 in 145K | 346 | Rizos | 53 |
| US United States | 291 | 1 in 1.1M | 291 | Rizos | 145 |
| MX Mexico | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 704K | 6 | Rizos | 26 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 562K | — | Rizos | 44 |
| AU Australia | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 396K | 1 | Rizos | 50 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Rizos | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Rizos | 7 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Apostolos Rizosb. 1977GRGreek singer
- Teresa Rizosb. 1986DEGerman actress
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Rizos come from?
- pers. name. Mod. Greek Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Rizos?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /riθos/; in Greek /ɾizos/; in Swedish /risus/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Rizos mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name. Mod.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rizos?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Rizos in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ριζος. After it come Spain, United States, Mexico and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rizos?
- In Spain, the national register counted 346 people named Rizos, about 1 in 145 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/rizosThe 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, “Rizos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.