Čiz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ptica

Čiz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 17K
  • SISlovenia1 in 162K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

614 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
8 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ČizLatin(measured from records)
ЧижCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Čiž in HR Croatia.

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)

ptica

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Čiz 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.

Where Čiz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia6141 in 17K615——
SK Slovakia3151 in 17K315——
AR Argentina791 in 576K79——
BR Brazil521 in 4.1M52——
UY Uruguay191 in 178K19——
HR Croatia141 in 302K14Čiž8
SI Slovenia131 in 162K13—1

614 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Čiz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak, Polish

    Also written Číž, Ciz, Ciż, Čiž, Číz

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Čiz under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Čiz mean, and where does it come from?
ptica Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
In which country does Čiz have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 614 people named Čiz, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čiz most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čiz is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čiz?
In Czechia, the national register counted 614 people named Čiz, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.

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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, “Čiz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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