Zael
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θael/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 2.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 4.1M
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.1M
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 Zael 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈52 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zal in DE Germany, NL Netherlands.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zael 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.
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the de-munich-vornamen register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 226 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 218 | #23,276 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 205 | #11,529 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 194 | #25,658 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 190 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 144 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 119 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 91 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 36 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zael a male or female name?
- Zael is a male 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.
- How do you pronounce Zael?
- A machine transcription gives /θael/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zael have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 people named Zael in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zael.
- How common is the name Zael?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23 people named Zal in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zael?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaelThe 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, “Zael”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.