Zaña
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zaña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 219K
- PEPeru≈1 in 242K
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.
- El Salvador (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zana in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain.
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)
noble; Tuniis, Nabeul, Sousse, Kairouan, Constantine
Sources 2
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaña 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #753 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Zaña | 5 |
| AR Argentina | — | 208 | 1 in 219K | 208 | Zana | 25 |
| US United States | — | 174 | 1 in 1.9M | 1.9K | Zana | 86 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Zaña | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 92 | 1 in 544K | 92 | Zana | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 26 | 1 in 323K | 26 | — | 7 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Zaña have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 312 people named Zaña in El Salvador, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaña.
- How common is the name Zaña?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 208 people named Zaña, about 1 in 219 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaña compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Zaña is the 753rd most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zaña?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/za%C3%B1aThe 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, “Zaña” — the 753rd most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.