Zëë
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zëë is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1670s: variant of zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), fro.
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 345K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, 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 Zee in US United States, NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa and 3 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)
- Middle Frenchzede(measured from records)
- Late Latinzeta(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekζῆταzêta(measured from records)
- Hebrewזzayin(measured from records)
1670s: variant of zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zëë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Zee | 28 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Zee | 36 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Zee | 44 |
| US United States | — | 964 | 1 in 345K | 1.3K | Zee | 305 |
| NL Netherlands | #322 | 420 | 1 in 41K | 420 | Zee | 102 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Zee | 49 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 Zëë mean, and where does it come from?
- 1670s: variant of zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), fro… Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2).
- Is Zëë a male or female name?
- Zëë 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 Zëë have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Zëë in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zee.
- How common is the name Zëë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 964 people named Zëë in 2010, about 1 in 345 thousand residents.
- How common is Zëë compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Zëë is the 322nd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Zëë” — the 322nd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.