Zãn

surname · Latin script

Zãn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Zanni.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 120K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 292K
  • SISlovenia1 in 46K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,763 people

Record sources
70 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zan in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 more and Žan in SI Slovenia.

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)

Variante di Zanni

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Zãn 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 Zãn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,7631 in 120K1.8KZan70
PL Poland5741 in 67K288——
US United States3921 in 849K738Zan43
AR Argentina1561 in 292K156Zan49
ES Spain1281 in 391K128Zan28
SI Slovenia461 in 46K7.6KŽan10
NO Norway201 in 273K30—1

1,763 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

(inferred from the name graph)

Zãn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Zan, Žan, Zań, Zán, Zañ

2 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zãn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zãn mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Zanni Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Zãn have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Zãn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zan.
Where is Zãn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zãn is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zãn?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,763 people named Zãn, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.

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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, “Zãn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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