Zip
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Fermeture à glissière étanche qui correspond peu ou prou à la fermeture Éclair
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Zip is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Fermeture à glissière étanche qui correspond peu ou prou à la fermeture Éclair. Le verbe zipper qui en dérive signifie garnir d’un zip. Voir Fermeture Éclair .
Cited for this meaning 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- INIndia
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- HKHong Kong
- IEIreland
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Zip 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 English, The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, second-person singular imperative of zipać
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)- Bohdan Zipb. 1929CAMember of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zip mean?
- Recorded meaning: Fermeture à glissière étanche qui correspond peu ou prou à la fermeture Éclair.
- In which country does Zip have the most bearers?
- Zip is most frequently recorded in India.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zipThe 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
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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, “Zip”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.