Zuǒ

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zuǒ is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 857 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: to present and drink a cup in response to the pledge cup; a matching libation; to reward.

  • FIFinland1 in 121K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 300K
  • USUnited States1 in 388K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

857 people, 2010

Record sources
32 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zuo in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

to present and drink a cup in response to the pledge cup; a matching libation; to reward

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Zuǒ is found

(measured from records)

Zuǒ 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.

Where Zuǒ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8571 in 388K1.5KZuo32
ES Spain891 in 562K89Zuo5
FI Finland461 in 121K46—1
SE Sweden341 in 300K34—1
PL Poland191 in 2M13——
CH Switzerland181 in 467K18—1

857 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Zuǒ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, China, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zuo

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
0500100015002000Zuo Si, b. 250Zuo Qiuming, b. 556Zuo Zongtang, b. 1812
  • Zuo Sib. 250Chinese writer and poet (250–305)
  • Zuo Qiumingb. 556Chinese historian (556–451 BC), responsible for an important commentary on Confucius's Spring & Autumn Annals
  • Zuo Zongtangb. 1812CNQing dynasty general (1812-1885)

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zuǒ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zuǒ mean, and where does it come from?
to present and drink a cup in response to the pledge cup; a matching libation; to reward Recorded by Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
Is Zuǒ a male or female name?
Zuǒ is a male 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.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Zuǒ?
In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Zuǒ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zuo. After it come Spain, Finland, Sweden and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Zuǒ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zuǒ is densest in Finland — about 1 in 121 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zuǒ?
In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Zuǒ in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.

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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, “Zuǒ” — ranked 18212th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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