Zayas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zayas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 41st most common surname. Recorded meaning: from the Ashkenazic pronunciation, zayis, of Hebr.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 966(inferred from the name graph)
- CUCuba≈1 in 1.6K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.8K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 966 (inferred from the name graph)
8,045 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, 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(measured from records)
from the Ashkenazic pronunciation, zayis, of Hebr. zayit olive. Zeiberts see Siebert
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zayas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,045 | 1 in 41K | 8.2K | Zayas | 303 |
| CU Cuba | #41 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Zayas | 28 |
| PY Paraguay | #213 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Zayas | 33 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,668 | 1 in 12K | 3.7K | Zayas | 59 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #82 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 966 | — | Zayas | 62 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #385 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Zayas | 22 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Zayas | 1 |
8,045 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- José Pascual de Zayas y Chacónb. 1772CUSpanish general (1772-1827)
- Alfredo Zayas y Alfonsob. 1861CUPresident of Cuba (1861-1934)
- Carlos Saladrigas Zayasb. 1900CUPrime Minister of Cuba
- Alfonso Zayasb. 1941MXMexican actor (1941-2021)
- David Zayasb. 1962USPuerto Rican actor
- Liza Colón-Zayasb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Joel Zayasb. 1977PYParaguayan footballer
- Luis Prietob. 1988PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
- Rosanny Zayasb. 1990USAmerican actress
- Santiago Ormeñob. 1994MXnot in their usual nameMexican-peruvian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8K | #4,414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.4K | #5,025 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.7K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Zayas come from?
- from the Ashkenazic pronunciation, zayis, of Hebr. zayit olive. Zeiberts see Siebert Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Zayas mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Ashkenazic pronunciation, zayis, of Hebr.
- In which country does Zayas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Zayas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zayas.
- How common is the name Zayas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,045 people named Zayas in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Zayas compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Zayas is the 41st most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Zayas” — the 41st most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.