Zaine

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zaine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 139K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 224K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 158K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,528 people, 2022

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaine 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 Zaine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,5281 in 139K1.7KZaine56
US United States1,4871 in 224K1.4KZaine129
ZA South Africa≈360 est.≈1 in 158K—Zaine19
AU Australia≈130 est.≈1 in 198K3Zaine54
PH Philippines≈81 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Zaine19
NZ New Zealand≈22 est.≈1 in 226K—Zaine30

1,528 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)

Zaine is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Morocco

    Also written Zaïne, Zâïnè, Zainé, Žăinë, Zaïné

41 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)

Zaine is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, feminine singular of zain

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

  • In Italian, feminine plural of zaino

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

  • In German, basket

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Zaine Griff, b. 1957Zane Keenan, b. 1988Zaine Francis-Angol, b. 1993Zaine Pierre, b. 1993Zaine Cordy, b. 1996

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)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.7K#6,688
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—1.6K#3,228
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#6,172
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20101.5K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,367
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20001K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990560—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1990489—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2000405—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980288—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1980272—

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

Is Zaine a male or female name?
Zaine 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 Zaine have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Zaine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaine.
Where is Zaine most common?
Zaine is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 139 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zaine?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,528 people named Zaine in 2022, about 1 in 139 thousand 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, “Zaine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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