Zaia

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/zəiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 114K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AOAngola≈1 in 73K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 88K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 people, est.

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Zaia 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 Zaia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil≈1,900 est.≈1 in 114K703Zaia71
IT Italy≈710 est.≈1 in 88K3Zaia28
AO Angola≈440 est.≈1 in 73K—Zaia2
US United States4091 in 813K412Zaia81
FR France≈170 est.≈1 in 401K290——
AU Australia≈160 est.≈1 in 161K1——
SE Sweden1021 in 100K102Zaia7

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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Zaia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zaïa

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Zaïa, Zaîa, Zai͏̈a

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zai︠a︡

  • Spanish surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Russia, Paraguay, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Zaya, Зая, Заиа, Zaja, Zai︠a︡

41 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)

Zaia 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 Basque, " Zaixa emon, azuzar, excitar a los animales. Eskatu txakurra eta zaixa emon zetsan sagar lapurretan zebizen mutikuen aurka " Etxba Eib. " Len da gizon asarria eta zaixa emoten dairdu guzurti aundi orrek " Ib. .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

FormalDear Ms Zaia,
InformalHi Zaia,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#6,527
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020412#54,078
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010409#50,960
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000326#58,257
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—102#7,086
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199117—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Zaia?
A machine transcription gives /zəiə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zaia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Zaia in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaia.
How common is the name Zaia?
In the United States, the national register counted 409 people named Zaia in 2010, about 1 in 813 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, “Zaia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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