Wiz
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wiz is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United States. In the Sudan it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
- SDSudan1 in 3K◐
- SNSenegal1 in 21K
- CMCameroon1 in 43K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 2.0K ●
- Sources
- 73 ●
in 5 countries
2.5K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | — | 440 | 761 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 73 |
| SD Sudan | #85 | 324 | 23 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 307 | 151 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 147 | 163 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 17 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 137 | 203 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 15 |
| EG Egypt | — | 122 | 41 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 82 | 111 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 3 |
| IN India | — | 67 | 82 rec. | — | 5 | Wiz | 16 |
| IT Italy | — | 47 | 77 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 46 | 38 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 45 | 64 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 36 | 44 rec. | — | — | Wiz | 18 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English85421%
- Arabic77519%
- French52113%
- Spanish2957%
- Thai1814%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 854 | 21% |
| Arabic | 775 | 19% |
| French | 521 | 13% |
| Spanish | 295 | 7% |
| Thai | 181 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Wiz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In goh, white
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●
- Wiz Kudoworb. 1957GHGhanian artist
- Wiz Kilob. 1984CACanadian singer
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #27,490 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #298,658 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #298,338 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
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 · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wiz?
- Our records include 2,026 bearers of Wiz across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Wiz have the most bearers?
- Wiz is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled wiz.
- How common is Wiz compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Wiz is the 85th most common given name of 4,942 given names recorded there.
- Is Wiz a male or female name?
- Wiz 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.
- What does the name Wiz mean?
- Recorded meaning: A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
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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, “Wiz” — the 85th most common given name in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.