Lize

Name: Lize: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007

/ɫaɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lize is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common

ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
ALAlbania1 in 5.7K
NLNetherlands1 in 6.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 104 (measured from records)
: 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Lizë

Locally spelled Lizë in AL Albania.

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

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

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Lize 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 Lize is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ZA South Africa	—	≈3,000 est.	≈1 in 19K	—	Lize	51
NL Netherlands	—	2,489	1 in 6.9K	2.5K	Lize	32
AL Albania	#276	537	1 in 5.7K	537	Lizë	8
BR Brazil	—	525	1 in 403K	525	Lize	46
BE Belgium	—	≈370 est.	≈1 in 32K	25	Lize	33
XK Kosovo	—	≈54 est.	≈1 in 36K	39	—	1

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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

Lize is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, South Africa, Belgium, Canada
Also written Lizé, Lizè
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Lizé
English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in South Africa, United States
Also written Lizé
Croatian given name8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Netherlands
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian
Also written Lizë, Лизе, Lizé
Latvian given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Latvia, Belgium
Also written Līze, Ližė
Swedish given name5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Sweden, South Africa
Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Also written Lizé

33 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

Lize is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In cdo, as trade to get people’s custom. -to bring near to one's self; to befriend
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Czech, dative/locative singular of liga
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Plakana koka lāpsta (mīklas veidojuma ievirzīšanai maizes krāsnī un izņemšanai no tās)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Slēpes
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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

Lies Frankenb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch actor (1930–1996)
Lize Markeb. 1936BEBelgian singer
Anne Lize van der Stoelb. 1954NLDutch politician (born 1954)
Lize Beekmanb. 1974ZASouth African musician
Lize Accoeb. 1981BEBelgian singer
Lize Weerdenburgb. 1987NLDutch speed skater, skier and track and field athlete, medal winner at Special Olympics competitions
Lize Spitb. 1988BEwriter
Lize Broekxb. 1992BEBelgian kayaker
Lize Ferynb. 1993BEBelgian television actress and model
Lize van Leeuwenb. 2003NLdiver

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).

How to address them

FormalDear Colleague,

InformalHello,

Evidence

36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Lize
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
NL Netherlands	CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)	2007	8	#67,021

Reference works 5

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
Wikipedia given-name tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Lize?: In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Lize?: A machine transcription gives /ɫaɪz/ (IPA) for English.
Is Lize a male or female name?: Lize is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Albania (INSTAT Albania), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
In which country does Lize have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Lize in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lize.
Where is Lize most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lize is densest in Albania — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lize?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,489 people named Lize, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
How common is Lize compared with other names?: In Albania, Lize is the 276th most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Lize?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lize

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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, “Lize” — the 276th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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