Zarei
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zəɹɛi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zarei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 59K
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.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iran, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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)
Zarei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Zarei | 65 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Zarei | 35 |
| US United States | 157 | 1 in 2.1M | 296 | Zarei | 105 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 538K | — | Zarei | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 562K | — | Zarei | 59 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Zarei | 32 |
| SE Sweden | 97 | 1 in 105K | 97 | Zarei | 15 |
| OM Oman | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Zarei | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ali-Asghar Zareib. 1956IRIranian politician
- Merila Zareib. 1974IRIranian actress
- Azadeh Zareib. 1989IRIranian script supervisor
- Masoumeh ZareiIRPh.D. Tarbiat Modares University 2015
- Hassan ZareiIRIranian actor
- Mohammad ZareiIRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4034-3043)
- Mani ZareiIRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1574-6086
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 296 | #71,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 157 | #111,988 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 97 | #7,417 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Zarei?
- A machine transcription gives /zəɹɛi/ (IPA) for Persian.
- In which country does Zarei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Zarei in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zarei.
- How common is the name Zarei?
- In the United States, the national register counted 157 people named Zarei in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zarei?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zareiThe 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, “Zarei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.