Zaia
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/zɐjɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Zaia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 100K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 150K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zaia
- Portuguese:/zɐjɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/saˈja/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Zaia is found
(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.
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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 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)- Luca Zaiab. 1968ITpresident of the Italian region Veneto
- Joseph ZaiaUSresearcher
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zaia?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /zɐjɐ/; in Spanish /saˈja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zaia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Zaia in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaia. After it come Italy, United States, France and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Zaia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaiaThe 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, “Zaia” — ranked 10552nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.