Tiza
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tiza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as chalk (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard).
- PEPeru≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 132K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 186K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
chalk (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tiza is read(measured from records)
Tiza 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.
- Spanish69%
chalk (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
A barangay of Roxas, Capiz, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tiza in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tiza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Tiza | 18 |
| PE Peru | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Tiza | 32 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 186K | listed | — | 1 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Tiza | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Tiza | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Tiza | 7 |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | Tiza | 8 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the dz-kaggle-names 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)
Tiza 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 Asturian, chalk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, tāds, kas ar grūtībām, pieklibojot kustas uz priekšu (cilvēks, zirgs u. tml.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tiza mean, and where does it come from?
- chalk (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tiza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Tiza in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiza.
- How common is the name Tiza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10 people named Tiza, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tiza?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tizaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tiza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.