Zän
surname · Latin script
Zän is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Zanni.
- SISlovenia1 in 46K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 67K
- BRBrazil1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
1,763 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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 US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma).
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 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zän 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,763 | 1 in 120K | 1.8K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 574 | 1 in 67K | 288 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 392 | 1 in 849K | 738 | Zan | 55 |
| AR Argentina | — | 156 | 1 in 292K | 156 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 128 | 1 in 391K | 128 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 46 | 1 in 46K | 7.6K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 30 | — | 1 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #162 | — | — | — | Zan | 41 |
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); 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zän 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 Zän have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Zän, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zän most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zän 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 Zän?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,763 people named Zän, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Zän compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Zän is the 162nd most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zän?
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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%A4nThe 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, “Zän” — the 162nd most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.