Zenon
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Zeno
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪ʃenon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zenon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 987(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 139K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 987 (inferred from the name graph)
38,796 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from saint name Zenon, short for Zenodotos 'given by Zeus'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zenon is read(measured from records)
Zenon is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish65%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zenon in Spanish.
- Polish15%
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Zeno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
dance co., MN
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Greek; "a stranger".
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zenon 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.
38,796 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Zenon 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 German, from saint name Zenon, short for Zenodotos 'given by Zeus'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, forma reduzida setentrional de Zenone
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Origine grecque, signifie « rayonnant ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Zeno of Sidonb. 150LBnot in their usual nameEpicurean philosopher from the Phoenician city of Sidon (150-c. 75 BCE)
- Zeno of Tarsusb. 250TRnot in their usual name3rd century BCE Greek Stoic philosopher
- Zeno of Caunusb. 300TRnot in their usual nameancient Greek public official and scribe
- Zeno of Citiumb. 334CYnot in their usual nameGreek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
- Zeno of Eleab. 490ITnot in their usual nameGreek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
- Les Kurbasb. 1887UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)
- Zenon Kliszkob. 1908PLPolish politician (1908-1989)
- Zenon Pylyshynb. 1937CACanadian cognitive scientist and philosopher (1937–2022)
- Zenon Grocholewskib. 1939PLCatholic cardinal
- Zenon Jaskułab. 1962PLRoad racing cyclist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40K | #101 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 39K | #107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #6,629 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #6,629 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 14 | #1,840 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2013 | 4 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zenon come from?
- from saint name Zenon, short for Zenodotos 'given by Zeus' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Zenon?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪ʃenon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Zenon mean?
- In Polish, a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Zeno
- In which country does Zenon have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Zenon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zenon.
- Where is Zenon most common?
- Zenon is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 987 people carrying it.
- Is Zenon a male or female name?
- Zenon 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 are other forms of the name Zenon?
- In the etymology graph, Zinon is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zenon?
- In Poland, the national register counted 38,796 people named Zenon in 2026, about 1 in 987 residents.
- How common is Zenon compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zenon is the 156th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zenon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zenonThe 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, “Zenon” — the 156th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.