Nitza
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nitza is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Nitzah; Nitzana: weibl.
- PEPeru1 in 212K◐
- USUnited States1 in 234K
- PRPuerto Rico1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 169 ●
- 1 in 159K ◐
across 5 countries
24K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin●
) Nitzah; Nitzana: weibl. Vom. neuhebräischer Herkunft (neuhebr. nitsä »Knospe«).
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,422 | 15K rec. | 1 in 234K | 1.4K | Nitza | 169 |
| PE Peru | — | 1,062 | 872 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 27 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #23 | 855 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Nitza | 30 |
| MX Mexico | — | 700 | 507 rec. | — | 1 | Nitza | 47 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 697 | 657 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 16 |
| CL Chile | — | 559 | 62 rec. | — | 1 | Nitza | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 546 | 706 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 14 |
| AR Argentina | — | 425 | 315 rec. | — | 2 | Nitza | 28 |
| CU Cuba | #115 | 293 | 275 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 9 |
| HN Honduras | — | 218 | 216 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 7 |
| CO Colombia | — | 171 | 118 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 15 |
| IL Israel | — | 152 | 161 rec. | — | — | Nitza | 35 |
Roughly 1.4K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 234K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English11K41%
- Spanish10K37%
- 1.5K6%
- Portuguese8933%
- Hebrew5452%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 11,403 | 41% |
| Spanish | 10,202 | 37% |
| 1,543 | 6% | |
| Portuguese | 893 | 3% |
| Hebrew | 545 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 9 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1961 | 14 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 11 |
| 1964 | 12 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 13 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 13 |
| 1973 | 9 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 13 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 16 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2023 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1951–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nitza Rosovskyb. 1934ILIsraeli writer
- Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadarb. 1941ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli mathematics educator (born 1941)
- Nitza Peledb. 1942ILIsraeli painter
- Nitza Metzger-Szmukb. 1945ILIsraeli architect and preservationist
- Nitza Shaulb. 1950ILIsraeli actress
- Nitza Ben-Dovb. 1950ILHebrew literary scholar
- Nitza Margarita Cintronb. 1950USPuerto Rican scientist
- Niza Yanayb. 1951ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli sociologist
- Nitza Peledb. 1956ILAn Israeli poet and Translator
- Nitza TerminILIsraeli singer and musician
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,638 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 38 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 32 | #4,355 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 23 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #113,027 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #96,096 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 14 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 186 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nitza?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Nitza (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nitza have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.4 thousand people bear Nitza in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nitza.
- How common is Nitza compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Nitza is the 23rd most common given name of 2,536 given names recorded there.
- Is Nitza a male or female name?
- Nitza is a female 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.
- What does the name Nitza mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Nitzah; Nitzana: weibl.
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About this data
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, “Nitza” — the 23rd most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.