Zaino

surname · Latin script

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

Zaino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: chestnut (of a dark, reddish-brown color).

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 350K
  • USUnited States1 in 415K

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)

802 people, 2010

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

chestnut (of a dark, reddish-brown color)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaino 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 Zaino is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8021 in 415K802Zaino46
UY Uruguay881 in 38K88——
BR Brazil391 in 5.4M39——
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24—1
AR Argentina241 in 1.9M24——
BE Belgium71 in 1.7M7Zaino6

802 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Zaino is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Źaino, Zaìno

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Ζαινο

36 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)

Zaino is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, satchel, rucksack, backpack

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, (?). Ene usantza gaixtoak / khentzatzu errotarik, / nabarrak nola berroak / alhor zainhoetarik . EZ Eliç 62.

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaino
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010802#29,447
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020788#31,474
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000780#28,730
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—88—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—39#124,653
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202424#32,062
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—24—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#85,133
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Zaino mean, and where does it come from?
chestnut (of a dark, reddish-brown color) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Zaino have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 802 people named Zaino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaino.
Where is Zaino most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zaino is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zaino?
In the United States, the national register counted 802 people named Zaino in 2010, about 1 in 415 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, “Zaino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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