The Mirza surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,831 people carried this name — #6,940 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 61,000 people counted. That is up 49% from 3,234 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Mirza surname
From Persian میرزا (mirzâ), from earlier میرزاد (mirzâd), composed of میر (mir, “commander”) (from Arabic title أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”)) and the suffix ـزاد، ـزاده (-zâd, -zâde, “child of, son of”), from زادن (zâdan).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mirza» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
289 people named Mirza live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 257 people named Mirza live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 60 people named Mirza.
Most of them — 31 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Martinique.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,073 people named Mirza are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Mirza in American newspapers,
1842–1905.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 6,778 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Mirza,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ibrahim Mirza 1540–1577 · calligrapher -
Ardashir Mirza Rukn al-Dawla 1807–1866 · governor -
Ardashir Mirza Rukn al-Dawla 1807–1866 · governor -
Khosrow Mirza 1813–1875 · diplomat -
Iraj Mirza 1874–1926 · writer -
Irshad Mirza d. 2022 · industrialist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mirza.
- Miri 198 · U.S. census
- Mirkovic 303 · U.S. census
- Mirman 245 · U.S. census
- Miro 1,149 · U.S. census
- Miron 2,739 · U.S. census
- Mirville 217 · U.S. census
- Mis 563 · U.S. census
- Mischel 524 · U.S. census
- Mischler 800 · U.S. census
- Misiak 828 · U.S. census
- Miskiewicz 297 · U.S. census
- Miss 164 · U.S. census
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