Nzala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hunger
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nzɑlɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nzala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 395K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 18M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 395K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
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)
Hunger.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nzala 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Nzala | 6 |
| FR France | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Nzala | 55 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | — | Nzala | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | — | — | Nzala | 5 |
| ZM Zambia | — | — | 5 | Nzala | 3 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | — | — | — | Nzala | 4 |
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: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)
Nzala 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 kmb, Folhazinha
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 5 | #38 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nzala mean, and where does it come from?
- Hunger. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Nzala?
- A machine transcription gives /nzɑlɑ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Nzala have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 258 people named Nzala in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nzala.
- How common is the name Nzala?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Nzala as their first surname, about 1 in 395 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nzalaThe 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, “Nzala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.