Zazou

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a member of a French youth subculture of the 1930s, associated with swing music and large or garish clothes

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/zazu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zazou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.3M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

35 people

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a member of a French youth subculture of the 1930s, associated with swing music and large or garish clothes

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zazou 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 Zazou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain351 in 1.4M35—1
BE Belgium51 in 2.3M5Zazou6
US United States———Zazou19
AU Australia———Zazou6
NL Netherlands——11Zazou2

35 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Zazou is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zâzôû

30 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame,Dear Ms Zazou, (English)
InformalBonjour Zazou,Hi Zazou, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Zazou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—35#57,612
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—35#56,582
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#98,473

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zazou mean, and where does it come from?
a member of a French youth subculture of the 1930s, associated with swing music and large or garish clothes Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Zazou?
A machine transcription gives /zazu/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Zazou have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 35 people named Zazou, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Zazou most common?
Zazou is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Zazou?
In Spain, the national register counted 35 people named Zazou, about 1 in 1.4 million 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, “Zazou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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