Zéli

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zéli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania1 in 81K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 7.2M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

7,757 people, 2022

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zeli in FR France.

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)

recorded in Portuguese

var. regional e gráfica de Zelli/Gelli; também habitante de localidades chamadas Zelo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zéli 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 Zéli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil7,7571 in 27K9.7K——
AL Albania381 in 81K38——
FR France≈9 est.≈1 in 7.2M6Zeli54
CI Côte d’Ivoire——218—2
AR Argentina——20——

7,757 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Zéli is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Zeli

  • Portuguese given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Sweden, China

    Languages: Portuguese, English, Chinese

    Also written Zeli, Ze-Li, Zelí, Źeĺi

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 Zéli 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

Is Zéli a male or female name?
Zéli is a female 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 Zéli have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Zéli, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Zéli most common?
Zéli is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zéli?
In Brazil, the national register counted 7,757 people named Zéli in 2022, about 1 in 27 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, “Zéli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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