Zulian

surname · Latin script

Meaning: forma reduzida setentrional de Zuliano (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/zuljɐn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated

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Zulian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

  • ITItaly≈1 in 23Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 82K
  • BRBrazil1 in 123K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 people, est.

Record sources
73 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Zulian

  • Portuguese:/zuljɐn/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/suljan/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Italian:/d͡zulian/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

forma reduzida setentrional de Zuliano

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where the surname Zulian is found

(measured from records)

Zulian 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 Zulian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈2,500 est.≈1 in 23KlistedZulian37
BR Brazil1,7151 in 123K1.7KZulian73
FR France≈320 est.≈1 in 214K29—1
AR Argentina2021 in 225K202Zulian31
US United States≈140 est.≈1 in 2.4MlistedZulian19
CH Switzerland1031 in 82K103Zulian9

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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Zulian is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Żulian, Zulián

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, China, Switzerland

    Also written Zu-Lian

33 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)

Zulian is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Giuliani

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

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)
FormalPrezado(a) Zulian,Dear Zulian, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Zulian,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zulian mean, and where does it come from?
forma reduzida setentrional de Zuliano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Zulian?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /zuljɐn/; in Spanish /suljan/; in Italian /d͡zulian/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Zulian?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Zulian in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulian. After it come Brazil, France, Argentina and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Zulian?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,715 people named Zulian, about 1 in 123 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, “Zulian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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