Zehavi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/zhɑvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zehavi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 2.3Kas זהבי(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
- PLPoland1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zehavi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 701K (inferred from the name graph)
3,778 named זהבי, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled זהבי in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania and 4 more and Zahavi in US United States.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zehavi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #220 | 3,778as זהבי | 1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | זהבי | 65 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | זהבי | 3 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | זהבי | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | זהבי | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 6 | Zahavi | 102 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | זהבי | 2 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | זהבי | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 31 | 1 in 1.2M | 17 | זהבי | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
3,778 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Avishag Zahavib. 1922ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli biologist
- Amotz Zahavib. 1928ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli evolutionary biologist (1928-2017)
- Alex Zehavib. 1936ILIsraeli writer (1936–2007)
- Lea Zehavib. 1950ILIsraeli poet, writer and translator
- Oded Zehavib. 1961ILIsraeli composer, arranger and pianist
- Dan Zahavib. 1967DKnot in their usual nameDanish philosopher (1967-)
- Oz Zehavib. 1983ILIsraeli actor, model, and television host
- Eran Zahavib. 1987ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli footballer
- Ephraim ZehaviILIsraeli engineer
- Meirav ZehaviILresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-3636-5322
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #104,408 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #108,901 |
| 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 Zehavi?
- A machine transcription gives /zhɑvi/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Zehavi have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named זהבי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zehavi?
- In Poland, the national register counted 31 people named Zehavi in 2026, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Zehavi compared with other names?
- In Israel, Zehavi is the 220th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zehavi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zehaviThe 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, “Zehavi” — the 220th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.