Zulú
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zulú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ngoni; compare Zulu umZulu.
- SESweden1 in 243K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 243K (inferred from the name graph)
255 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zulu in ZM Zambia, US United States, BR Brazil.
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)
From Ngoni; compare Zulu umZulu.
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulú 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 340 | Zulu | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | 49 | 1 in 4.3M | 49 | Zulu | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 42 | 1 in 243K | 42 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | 1 |
| ZM Zambia | #492 | — | — | 185K | Zulu | 21 |
255 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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 Zulú mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ngoni; compare Zulu umZulu. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary.
- Is Zulú a male or female name?
- Zulú 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 Zulú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 255 people named Zulú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulu.
- Where is Zulú most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zulú is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 243 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zulú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 255 people named Zulú in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Zulú compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Zulú is the 492nd most common surname of 16,584 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zul%C3%BAThe 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, “Zulú” — the 492nd most common surname in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.