Herizo

given name · Malagasy · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Herizo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Madagascar, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malagasy and French, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MGMadagascar1 in 444
  • FRFrance1 in 1.2M
  • USUnited States1 in 348M

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

940

in 5 countries

Sources
82

696 records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Herizo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MG Madagascar#32460320 rec.Herizo27
FR France435356 rec.Herizo82
US United States99 rec.Herizo9
ES Spain12
CH Switzerland1 rec.53
CA Canada4 rec.14

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

Languages

  • Malagasy47150%
  • French44046%
  • English152%
  • Spanish111%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Malagasy47150%
French44046%
English152%
Spanish111%

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

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

  • a separate name3 records spelled Herizo2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hérizo

9 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.

Evidence

Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Herizo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)12#109,635
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20231#2,230

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Herizo?
Our records include 940 bearers of Herizo across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Herizo have the most bearers?
Herizo is most frequently recorded in Madagascar, where it is most often spelled herizo.
How common is Herizo compared with other names?
In Madagascar, Herizo is the 32nd most common given name of 2,416 given names recorded there.
Is Herizo a male or female name?
Herizo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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.

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, “Herizo” — the 32nd most common given name in Madagascar. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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