Zeitoun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Zayton (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Zeitoun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 55Kfew records
- EGEgypt≈1 in 170Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of Zayton.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zeitoun is found
(measured from records)Zeitoun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 255 | Zeitoun | 201 |
| EG Egypt | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Zeitoun | 37 |
| SY Syria | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Zeitoun | 14 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Zeitoun | 5 |
| US United States | 193 | 1 in 1.7M | 202 | Zeitoun | 67 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Zeitoun | 19 |
| IL Israel | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Zeitoun | 14 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Zeitoun is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Aleppo, Beirut, Lebanon, Alexandria, Cairo, Tunis, Roma, Livorno, Paris, São Paulo, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Salta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; vendedor de azeitonas; olives seller
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ariel Zeitounb. 1949FRFrench film producer, director and screenwriter
- Laurent Zeitounb. 1973FRFrench screenwriter and film producer
- Nassif Zaitounb. 1988SYnot in their usual nameSyrian singer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zeitoun mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Zayton. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zeitoun?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Zeitoun in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeitoun. After it come Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zeitoun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193 people named Zeitoun in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeitounThe 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, “Zeitoun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.