Zeli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: var. regional e gráfica de Zelli/Gelli; também habitante de localidades chamadas Zelo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɛli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zeli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 27K(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 68K
- ALAlbania1 in 81K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
7,757 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
var. regional e gráfica de Zelli/Gelli; também habitante de localidades chamadas Zelo
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zeli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 7,757 | 1 in 27K | 9.7K | Zeli | 63 |
| CN China | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Zeli | 14 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 218 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 661K | — | Zeli | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Zeli | 4 |
| AL Albania | 38 | 1 in 81K | 38 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 541K | listed | Zeli | 3 |
| PA Panama | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Zeli | 4 |
7,757 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register. 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)
Zeli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, inflection of zēlus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wuu, Solid (not hollow)
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Most, Toting
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Billion
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In Basque, "(G-to), inclinación, ansia. Auntzak mendirako zelia dute " A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Zeli Ismailb. 1993GBEnglish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.7K | #2,215 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 9.3K | #973 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 7.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.4K | #2,023 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 7.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Zeli?
- A machine transcription gives /zɛli/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Zeli a male or female name?
- Zeli is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Zeli mean?
- Recorded meaning: var. regional e gráfica de Zelli/Gelli; também habitante de localidades chamadas Zelo
- In which country does Zeli have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Zeli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeli.
- Where is Zeli most common?
- Zeli is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zeli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,757 people named Zeli in 2022, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zeli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeliThe 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, “Zeli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.