Zú

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Zú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 249 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • SESweden1 in 486K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

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.

United States (measured from records)

249 people, 2020

Record sources
38 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 486K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

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 Zu in MX Mexico, US United States, BR Brazil and 2 more.

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)
recorded in Korean

@ 北 魏 时 改 代 北 鲍 粗 氏 为 姐 氏 , 见 《姓氏 考 略 》(60 ,62) 。@@ 相 传 宋 岳飞 姑 夫 祝 公 为 避 岳 飞 之 祸 , 命 六 子 外 逃 隐 姓 ,其 四 子 祝 景 行 至 长 社 ( 今 河南 长 葛 东 北 ) ,改姓 组 (704) 。

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Zú 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 Zú is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2491 in 1.3M352Zu36
BR Brazil251 in 8.5M180Zu30
SE Sweden211 in 486K21——
NL Netherlands131 in 1.3M7—2
MX Mexico≈6 est.≈1 in 22M—Zu38
PT Portugal≈4 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Zu9
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2Zu10

249 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Zú is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Malaysia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zu, Zü, Zue, Žu, Żu

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Zu, Zû, Żu, Zù, Żų

  • a separate given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, India, Malaysia

    Also written Zu, Zũ, Žu, ̈zu, Zü

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Zu, Zů, Žu

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Russia, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Zu, Zü

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Zú is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 卆

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tow, snow

    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

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people named Zú?
In the United States, the national register counted about 249 people named Zú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zu. After it come Brazil, Sweden, Netherlands and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Zú most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zú is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 486 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zú?
In the United States, the national register counted 249 people named Zú in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million 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, “Zú” — ranked 33297th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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