Zera
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Beauty, blooms, dawn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈzɛɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zera is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 777K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 11K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 39K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Beauty, blooms, dawn.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zera 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Zera | 9 |
| US United States | 428 | 1 in 777K | 493 | Zera | 162 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | Zera | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Zera | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Zera | 11 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 28 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 469K | — | Zera | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Zera 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.
Semillas
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In sdn, alternative form of cera (“wax. beeswax”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-wmp-pro, hurt, frightened, or discouraged by previous bad experience
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of zerum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, thing, thingy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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 45 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 493 | #43,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 476 | #42,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 455 | #49,823 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,602 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- What does the name Zera mean, and where does it come from?
- Beauty, blooms, dawn. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Zera?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzɛɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Zera a male or female name?
- Zera 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.
- In which country does Zera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Zera in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zera.
- How common is the name Zera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 428 people named Zera in 2020, about 1 in 777 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zera?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeraThe 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, “Zera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.