Zëri
surname · Latin script
Zëri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'. The variant Izri likely means 'my fashioning', 'creation', or 'formed by Yah'.
- SESweden1 in 537K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- BRBrazil1 in 3.4M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 537K (inferred from the name graph)
62 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zeri in FR France.
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)The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'. The variant Izri likely means 'my fashioning', 'creation', or 'formed by Yah'.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zëri 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.
62 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Vasillaq Zërib. 1952ALAlbanian football player (1952-2019)
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zëri mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Zeri is derived from a root meaning 'balm' or 'balsam'. The variant Izri likely means 'my fashioning', 'creation', or 'formed by Yah'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Zëri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 62 people named Zëri, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zëri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zëri is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 537 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zëri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 62 people named Zëri in 2022, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%ABriThe 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, “Zëri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.