Tisza
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: yew (mainly used in the compound word tiszafa (literally “yew tree”))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɪszə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tisza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 40Kas Theiß
- AOAngola≈1 in 140K
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 Tisza 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 named Theiß, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Theiß in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
yew (mainly used in the compound word tiszafa (literally “yew tree”))
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tisza is read(measured from records)
Tisza is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
river, Europe
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tisza in Spanish.
- Hungarian17%
yew (mainly used in the compound word tiszafa (literally “yew tree”))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tisza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Theiß | 56 |
| AO Angola | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Tisza | 1 |
| PE Peru | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Tisza | 12 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 134 | Tisza | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Tisza | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Theiß | 10 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)
- Lajos Tiszab. 1798HUHungarian politician (1798-1856)
- Kálmán Tiszab. 1830HUHungarian prime minister (1830-1902)
- Lajos Tiszab. 1832HUHungarian politician (1832–1898)
- István Tiszab. 1861HUHungarian politician (1861–1918)
- Lajos Tiszab. 1879HUHungarian noble, politician (1879-1942)
- István Tiszab. 1886HUHungarian military officer (1886-1918)
- László Tiszab. 1907USHungarian physicist (1907-2009)
- Miklós Tiszab. 1949HUHungarian mechanical engineer (1949-2021)
- Kata Tiszab. 1980ROHungarian writer
- Tibor Tiszab. 1984HUassociation football player
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 134 | #119,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| 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 Tisza mean, and where does it come from?
- yew (mainly used in the compound word tiszafa (literally “yew tree”)) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tisza?
- A machine transcription gives /tɪszə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tisza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Theiß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tisza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Tisza in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tisza?
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/tiszaThe 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, “Tisza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.