Zulima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: del semita slm 'paz' (hebreo shalóm, árabe salám)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sulima/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zulima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 46K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 81K
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
625 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
del semita slm 'paz' (hebreo shalóm, árabe salám)
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 625 | 1 in 46K | 625 | Zulima | 17 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 3 | Zulima | 47 |
| ES Spain | — | 422 | 1 in 119K | 437 | Zulima | 64 |
| US United States | — | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 202 | Zulima | 76 |
| BR Brazil | — | 165 | 1 in 1.3M | 246 | Zulima | 26 |
| UY Uruguay | #888 | 86 | 1 in 39K | 86 | Zulima | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | Zulima | 1 |
625 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Zulima is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, fraudulence zulimboi)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Zula Bartlett Bakerb. 1851USnot in their usual nameof Mankato, Minnesota; 1851-1933
- Zulima Farberb. 1944USAmerican politician
- Ana Zulima Iglesias CruzESTeacher (higher education)
- Zulimar LucenaUSnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1682-2661
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 625 | #2,275 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 437 | #2,344 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 422 | #5,131 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 246 | #12,229 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 208 | #24,674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 202 | #38,064 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 165 | #29,146 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 137 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 98 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 86 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 85 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Zulima mean, and where does it come from?
- del semita slm 'paz' (hebreo shalóm, árabe salám) Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Zulima?
- A machine transcription gives /sulima/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Zulima a male or female name?
- Zulima 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.
- In which country does Zulima have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 625 people named Zulima, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulima.
- Where is Zulima most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zulima is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zulima?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 625 people named Zulima, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Zulima compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Zulima is the 888th most common given name of 12,212 given names 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/zulimaThe 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, “Zulima” — the 888th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.