Zeñi
surname · Latin script
Zeñi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the personal name Zeno.
- BRBrazil1 in 30K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 17K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 66K
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)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
7,035 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zeni in BR Brazil, US United States, PT Portugal and 1 more.
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
(measured from records)- LatinZēnō(inferred from the name graph)via Zeno
- Ancient GreekΖήνωνZḗnōn(inferred from the name graph)via Zeno
- Proto-Hellenic*dzéus(inferred from the name graph)via Zeno
- Proto-Indo-European*dyḗws(inferred from the name graph)via Zeno
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From the personal name Zeno.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zeñi 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 | 7,035 | 1 in 30K | 8.9K | Zeni | 102 |
| AL Albania | 186 | 1 in 17K | 186 | — | — |
| US United States | 157 | 1 in 2.1M | 372 | Zeni | 53 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 406K | listed | Zeni | 43 |
| PL Poland | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 699K | 2 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 28 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 386K | listed | Zeni | 8 |
7,035 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zeñi mean, and where does it come from?
- From the personal name Zeno. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Zeñi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Zeñi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeni.
- Where is Zeñi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zeñi is densest in Albania — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zeñi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,035 people named Zeñi in 2022, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zeñi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ze%C3%B1iThe 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, “Zeñi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.