Foz

loc · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Foz is a name, most frequently recorded in Portugal. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: mouth of a river.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 812◐
  • ESSpain1 in 41K
  • BRBrazil1 in 96K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1 ●

across 1 country

Sources
65 ●

1.9K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 351K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Föz in TR Türkiye.

Meaning & origin●

mouth of a river

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Foz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PT Portugal15,09720 rec.——Foz16
BR Brazil2,853402 rec.—663Foz65
ES Spain2,150484 rec.—457Foz60
AO Angola280 rec.——Foz1
FR France80 rec.—2Foz1
LU Luxembourg72 rec.——Foz2
TR Türkiye682 rec.——Föz7
GB United Kingdom56 rec.——Foz5
IT Italy51 rec.——Foz1
PE Peru51 rec.——Foz1
IS Iceland1—1 in 351K1——
US United States—146 rec.—117—25

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese18K18%
  • Spanish2.2K2%
  • French4911%
  • English2031%
  • Arabic141%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese18,01018%
Spanish2,1742%
French4911%
English2031%
Arabic141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Foz is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name1.7K records spelled Foz4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Fóz

  • a separate name71 records spelled Foz2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fóz

35 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses●

Foz 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 English, A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, sickle

    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●

  • Braulio Fozb. 1791ESSpanish writer and journalist (1791-1865)

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Foz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—663#13,205
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—457#8,622
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—457#8,618
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020117#144,270
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010107#152,628
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197112—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—10—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19715—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19675—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19984—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19724—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19644—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 73 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Foz?
We estimate roughly 1 people bear Foz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Foz have the most bearers?
Foz is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled foz.
What does the name Foz mean?
Recorded meaning: mouth of a river
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Foz”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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