Zeri
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/zeɾi/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Zeri is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 537K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'. The variant Izri likely means 'my fashioning', 'creation', or 'formed by Yah'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zeri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Zeri | 12 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Zeri | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 62 | 1 in 3.4M | 230 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Zeri | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Zeri is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
He represents the Levitical duty of sacred music and prophecy within the organized worship of the Temple.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In Italian, oriundo da cidade setentrional de Zeri; também de Zero Branco
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Basque, dative indefinite of zer (“what”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive singular of zerum
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)- Federico Zerib. 1921ITItalian art historian (1921–1998)
- Maria Luisa Zerib. 1928ITItalian singer (1928-2015)
- Ana Carolina ZeriBRBrazilian researcher
- Fabrizio ZeriITresearcher
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 62 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #57,499 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 33 | #45,103 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 30 | #40,013 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #57,499 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,545 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Zeri come from?
- The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'. The variant Izri likely means 'my fashioning', 'creation', or 'formed by Yah'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Zeri?
- In Turkish /zeɾi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zeri a male or female name?
- Zeri 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.
- What does the name Zeri mean?
- Recorded meaning: The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'.
- In which country does Zeri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 756 people named Zeri in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeri.
- How common is the name Zeri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 62 people named Zeri in 2022, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zeri?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeriThe 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, “Zeri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.