Zéu
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zéu is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: you yourself (intensive).
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 8.1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 20M
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)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
26 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zeu in BR Brazil, US United States, PH Philippines 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)you yourself (intensive)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zéu 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 | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 33 | Zeu | 21 |
| US United States | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Zeu | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 36M | — | Zeu | 4 |
| PE Peru | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Zeu | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
26 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Zéu mean, and where does it come from?
- you yourself (intensive) Recorded by Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- Is Zéu a male or female name?
- Zéu 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 Zéu have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 26 people named Zéu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeu.
- Where is Zéu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zéu is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zéu?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 26 people named Zéu in 2022, about 1 in 8.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A9uThe 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, “Zéu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.