Zeza
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/zezɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Zeza is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M
- AOAngola≈1 in 55Kfew records
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zeza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Zeza | 9 |
| AO Angola | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Zeza | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 122 | 1 in 1.7M | 148 | Zeza | 38 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Zeza | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Zeza | 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)Zeza is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Zheza.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Polish, genitive singular of zez
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, from behind
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.
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zeza?
- In Portuguese /zezɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zeza a male or female name?
- Zeza is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- Which countries have the most people named Zeza?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Zeza in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeza. After it come Angola, Brazil, Switzerland and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zeza?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 122 people named Zeza in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zeza?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zezaThe 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, “Zeza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.