Zâï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zâï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: To load, carry, pour, fill, conveyance.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 84K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 350K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
112 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zai in US United States, BR Brazil, CH Switzerland and 2 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)
To load, carry, pour, fill, conveyance
Sources 2
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zâï 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 292 | Zai | 35 |
| BR Brazil | 106 | 1 in 2M | 106 | Zai | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 100 | 1 in 84K | 100 | Zai | 4 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 836K | — | Zai | 4 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Zai | 16 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 10 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 6 | 1 in 350K | 6 | — | — |
112 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Zâï mean, and where does it come from?
- To load, carry, pour, fill, conveyance Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Zâï a male or female name?
- Zâï is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Zâï have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 112 people named Zâï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zai.
- Where is Zâï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zâï is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 84 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zâï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Zâï in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zâï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A2%C3%AFThe 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, “Zâï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.