Zanca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: leg of a bird
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈzæŋkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zanca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 136K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 261K
- ITItaly≈1 in 65K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
leg of a bird
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Zanca is read(measured from records)
Zanca is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zanca in English.
- Spanish29%
leg of a bird
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zanca in Portuguese.
- French6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zanca in French.
- Italian5.8%
forma feminina de Zanco
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Zanchi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zanca 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.
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Zanca is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, alternative spelling of zancha (“kind of soft Parthian shoe”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, leg; thigh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonio Zancab. 1861ITItalian architect (1861–1958)
- Angelo Zancab. 1883ITItalian mariner
- Andrei Zancab. 1952RORomanian-German poet and translator
- Dionisio Martín-Zancab. 1952ESresearcher Spanish
- Alicia Zancab. 1954ARArgentinian actor (1954-2012)
- Fernanda Mariel ZancaARresearcher
- Federica Zancaresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 810 | #11,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 419 | #47,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 399 | #55,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 389 | #53,204 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 266 | #13,256 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 266 | #13,238 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zanca mean, and where does it come from?
- leg of a bird Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zanca?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzæŋkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zanca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 958 people named Zanca in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zanca.
- How common is the name Zanca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 810 people named Zanca, about 1 in 261 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zancaThe 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, “Zanca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.