Zengo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zengo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pers. name. Japanese.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 3M
- USUnited States≈1 in 325Mas Zengoe
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 Zengo 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
70 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(inferred from the name graph)
pers. name. Japanese
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zengo 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 | 70 | 1 in 3M | 70 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 325M | listed | Zengo | 59 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | — | — | Zengo | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Zengo | 9 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | Zengo | 1 |
70 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70 | #82,471 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zengo mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name. Japanese
- In which country does Zengo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 70 people named Zengo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zengo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zengo is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 700 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zengo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 70 people named Zengo, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zengo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zengoThe 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, “Zengo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.