Zulay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zulay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 4.6K
- PAPanama≈1 in 5.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zulay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
18,926 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Зулай in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulay 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #160 | 18,926 | 1 in 1.5K | 19K | Zulay | 53 |
| CO Colombia | #537 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 2 | Zulay | 73 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 73K | #882 | Зулай | 92 |
| EC Ecuador | #676 | 1,556 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Zulay | 27 |
| CR Costa Rica | #214 | 1,119 | 1 in 4.6K | 1.1K | Zulay | 17 |
| PA Panama | #238 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 9 | Zulay | 26 |
18,926 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zulay Pérez de Layrisseb. 1930VEVenezuelan biologist and researcher
- Zulay Garcíab. 1949VEVenezuelan actress
- Zulay Rodríguezb. 1969PAex member of parliament in the National Assembly of Panama
- Zulay Henaob. 1979COColombian-American actress
- Zulay Colmenaresb. 1981COColombian athlete
- Zulay Camachob. 2002COColombian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Zulay a male or female name?
- Zulay 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 Zulay have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Zulay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulay.
- Where is Zulay most common?
- Zulay is densest in Venezuela, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zulay?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 18,926 people named Zulay, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Zulay compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Zulay is the 160th most common given name of 218,181 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zulayThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zulay” — the 160th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.