Zaić
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Zaić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 50K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.2M
- CZCzechia1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
124 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zaic in US United States.
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)cf. zalea subst. ard. pita" (Pa's.). 1. Zdic /ul din Zdicani (Ard) ; -efti, -ani ss. 2. Zeaicu (Dm ; Stef). 3. Zeico (17 A III 82) ; Zeicu (16 B V 8 ; T-Jiu) ; Zeic /a t. (Putna) ; -efti, -oiu ss. < ard. zAicoi "gaita" (Pas). 4. Cf. blg. BUR, pl. Bant,' ,,iepure", din ,plur. Zaiti : Zaef, Radul (17 B II 241) ; Zai(d M. mold. act.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zaić 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 156 | Zaic | 6 |
| HR Croatia | 85 | 1 in 50K | 85 | Zaić | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 33 | 1 in 1.2M | 17 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 5 | 1 in 2.1M | 5 | — | — |
124 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 85 | #9,076 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 76 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Zaić have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 124 people named Zaić, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaic.
- Where is Zaić most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zaić is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zaić?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Zaić in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million 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/zai%C4%87The 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, “Zaić”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.