Zadra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma feminina de Zadro
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/zədɹɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zadra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 306K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
- BEBelgium1 in 837K
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 Zadra 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 306K (inferred from the name graph)
692 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Задра in UA Ukraine.
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)forma feminina de Zadro
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zadra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 692 | 1 in 306K | 692 | — | — |
| US United States | 277 | 1 in 1.2M | 277 | — | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 894K | — | Задра | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 13 | 1 in 3.5M | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
692 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Zadra 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 Italian, Variante di Zadro
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Polish, splinter (long, sharp fragment of material, often wood)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, splinter (small piece of wood broken off a tree)
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)- Fausto Zadrab. 1934ARArgentinian musician (1934–2001)
- Barbara Zadrab. 1959ITItalian canonist (born 1959)
- Daniel Zadrab. 1984ATAustrian politician
- Riccardo ZadraITItalian pianist
- Antonio ZadraCAresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3671-7081)
- Camillo ZadraITItalian historian
- Paola ZadraItalian bassist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 692 | #12,733 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 277 | #70,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 276 | #66,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 269 | #76,963 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #59,063 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 13 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Zadra mean, and where does it come from?
- forma feminina de Zadro Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Zadra?
- A machine transcription gives /zədɹɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zadra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 692 people named Zadra, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zadra most common?
- Zadra is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 306 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zadra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 692 people named Zadra, about 1 in 306 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zadraThe 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, “Zadra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.