Zènas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zènas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Zenas is venerated as a saint for his service to the early Christian church.
- USUnited States1 in 911K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 159K
- LTLithuania≈1 in 306K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, 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 Zenas in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 1 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)
Zenas is venerated as a saint for his service to the early Christian church. His inclusion in the Epistle to Titus highlights the importance of mutual support, hospitality, and the utilization of professional skills within the Christian mission. He represents the diverse backgrounds of early believers who collaborated with the apostles to spread the Gospel.
Sources 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zènas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Zenas | 9 |
| US United States | 365 | 1 in 911K | 334 | Zenas | 142 |
| PH Philippines | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 434K | listed | Zenas | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Zenas | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 64 | 1 in 3.3M | 84 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 306K | listed | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 Zènas mean, and where does it come from?
- Zenas is venerated as a saint for his service to the early Christian church. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Biblical Names Compiled Database and 1 other source.
- Is Zènas a male or female name?
- Zènas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zènas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 369 people named Zènas in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zenas.
- How common is the name Zènas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 365 people named Zènas in 2020, about 1 in 911 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A8nasThe 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, “Zènas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.