Zaitoun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Aleppo, Beirut, Lebanon, Alexandria, Cairo, Tunis, Roma, Livorno, Paris, São Paulo, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Salta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; vendedor de azeitonas; olives seller
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zəɪtawn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zaitoun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 14K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 86K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Aleppo, Beirut, Lebanon, Alexandria, Cairo, Tunis, Roma, Livorno, Paris, São Paulo, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Salta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; vendedor de azeitonas; olives seller
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaitoun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Zaitoun | 45 |
| JO Jordan | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Zaitoun | 24 |
| SY Syria | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Zaitoun | 21 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Zaitoun | 17 |
| US United States | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Zaitoun | 60 |
| SE Sweden | 83 | 1 in 123K | 83 | — | 7 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Zaitoun | 13 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Zaitoun 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.
olive tree; Livorno, Tunis, Sâo Paulo, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 83 | #8,360 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Zaitoun?
- A machine transcription gives /zəɪtawn/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Zaitoun mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aleppo, Beirut, Lebanon, Alexandria, Cairo, Tunis, Roma, Livorno, Paris, São Paulo, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Salta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; vendedor de azeitonas; olives seller
- In which country does Zaitoun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Zaitoun in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaitoun.
- How common is the name Zaitoun?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 83 people named Zaitoun, about 1 in 123 thousand 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/zaitounThe 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, “Zaitoun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.