Zī
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亜 (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zī is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 89K
- NLNetherlands1 in 100K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zî in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia, Z-I in US United States and Zǐ in CN China.
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)Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亜
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zī 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.
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Zī 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 Latvian, lieto atkārtojumā zīlītes balss atdarināšanai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Emperor Duzong of Songb. 1240CNnot in their usual nameemperor of the Song Dynasty
- Ren Zib. 1421politician
- Zi Liub. 1977CNChinese actress
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 Zī mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亜 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Zī a male or female name?
- Zī 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Zī?
- Mondonomo estimates about 562 thousand people named Zī in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zǐ. After it come Algeria, United States, Tunisia and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,324 people named Zī in 2020, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zī?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C4%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, “Zī”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.