Zàw
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zàw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Burmese ဇော် (jau).
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 182(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.9K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K
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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 182 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zaw in MM Myanmar (Burma), MY Malaysia, TH Thailand and 4 more.
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(measured from records)
From Burmese ဇော် (jau).
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zàw 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #2 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 182 | 2.1M | Zaw | 113 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Zaw | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | #486 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Zaw | 33 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Zaw | 11 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Zaw | 95 |
| SG Singapore | #513 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Zaw | 60 |
| US United States | — | 711 | 1 in 468K | 866 | Zaw | 164 |
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: This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zàw mean, and where does it come from?
- From Burmese ဇော် (jau). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zàw have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 310 thousand people named Zàw in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaw.
- How common is the name Zàw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 711 people named Zàw in 2020, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
- How common is Zàw compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Zàw is the 2nd most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zàw?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A0wThe 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 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, “Zàw” — the 2nd most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.