Zane

given name · Latin script

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

Zane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transferred use of a surname of uncertain origin.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 7.5K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 8.1K

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.

United States (measured from records)

44,095 people, 2020

Sources
409 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 342 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Transferred use of a surname of uncertain origin. It came to prominence as the given name of the American writer Zane Grey (1875-1939), a descendant of the Ebenezer Zane who founded Zaneville in Ohio.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zane 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 Zane is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—44,0951 in 7.5K44KZane409
CN China—≈32,000 est.≈1 in 44K—Zane20
LV Latvia#8215,5031 in 3425.5KZane57
ZA South Africa—≈4,200 est.≈1 in 13K—Zane100
AU Australia#836≈3,100 est.≈1 in 8.1K107Zane162
NZ New Zealand#447≈690 est.≈1 in 7.2K15Zane97

44,095 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; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zane is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zanè, Zané, Žane

  • Latvian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Žane, Zāne, Zané, Zanė

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Zanë, Žane, Zané, Žanė

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Latvia, South Africa

    Also written Zané, Zänë, Zanè, Zàne, Zånę

  • Italian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Latvia

    Also written Zan, Zanè, Žan, Zàn, Zané

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, Croatia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Žane, Зане, Zanë

  • Albanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Albania, Kosovo

    Also written Zanë, Zanê

60 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)

Zane is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name transferred from the surname.

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

  • In Italian, variante regional setentrional de Zanni

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Zanni

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of zanë

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

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    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)

18501900195020002050Zane Grey, b. 1872Zane C. Hodges, b. 1932Zane Smith, b. 1960Zane Lowe, b. 1973Zane Holtz, b. 1987Zane Phillips, b. 1993Zane Weir, b. 1995Zane Huett, b. 1997Levi Miller, b. 2002

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 80 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Zane
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202044K#978
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—5.5K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—5.5K#88
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020518#978
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)2008107#96
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)201264—
NZ New ZealandDIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present)202515—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202313—
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)194410—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)20169—

Reference works 6

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Where does the name Zane come from?
Transferred use of a surname of uncertain origin. It came to prominence as the given name of the American writer Zane Grey (1875-1939), a descendant of the Ebenezer Zane who founded Zaneville in Ohio. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
What are other forms of the name Zane?
In the etymology graph, Sanna, Sanni and Sanne are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Zane a male or female name?
Zane 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.
What does the name Zane mean?
Recorded meaning: Transferred use of a surname of uncertain origin.
How common is the name Zane?
In the United States, the national register counted 44,095 people named Zane in 2020, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
How common is Zane compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Zane is the 447th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
In which country does Zane have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Zane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zane.
Where is Zane most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zane is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 342 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Zane” — the 447th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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