Zë
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zë is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 12,701 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- BRBrazil1 in 17K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 340K
- USUnited States1 in 419K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
12,701 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ze in US United States and Zé in NL Netherlands.
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)姓 , 兄 《 姓 苑 》(7)。 江蘇 太 湖西 南 有 筆 崔 山 , 居 其 侧 者 以 为 氏 , 见 《姓氏 考 略 》(60) 。 ( 34K ] af YE FR (60). 2 FR (7) EER (I7) ER (9,239) 。
Cited for this meaning 2
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zë 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 12,701 | 1 in 17K | 13K | — | 4 |
| US United States | 794 | 1 in 419K | 588 | Ze | 161 |
| ES Spain | 47 | 1 in 1.1M | 47 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 31 | 1 in 557K | 31 | Zé | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
12,701 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Zë 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 Albanian, voice
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zë a male or female name?
- Zë 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 named Zë?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Zë, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Spain, Netherlands and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zë most common?
- Zë is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zë?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,701 people named Zë in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zë?
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/z%C3%ABThe 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, “Zë” — ranked 1447th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.