Zhi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zhi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 107K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 88K
- DKDenmark1 in 183K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
3,123 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
姓 , 见 《 姓 苑 》(444) ,也 见 《 云 南 省 革命 烈士 英名 录 》(444) 和 《中 国 姓氏 大 全 》(91) 。 今 汉 、 傣 等 民族 均 有 此 姓 (561) 。 (47) SR BR. T (444) 江 及 新 疆 布尔 津 (561) 、 甘 書 酒泉 , 上 海 等 地 均 有 此 姓 。 怕 二 可 康 i pdadingpingkdngba
Sources 2
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhi 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.
3,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cao Zhib. 250cao Wei prince and Western Jin official (died 288)
- Lu Zhib. 754CNChinese chancellor
- Nguyễn Tri Phươngb. 1800VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese general
- Bing Zhib. 1886CNChinese zoologist
- Tseng Kwong Chib. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican photographer, born in Hong Kong (1950-1990)
- Shen Zhihuab. 1950CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Lu Zhiquanb. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese athletics competitor
- Luo Zhilub. 2006CNnot in their usual nameChinese sport climber
- Zhi Duan ChenCNbotanist
- Liu Zhimember of the Han dynasty imperial family
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)
Attested in 50 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 518 | #44,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 259 | #74,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,267 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #83,074 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Zhi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒi/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- Is Zhi a male or female name?
- Zhi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Zhi?
- In the etymology graph, Trí is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zhi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Zhi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhi.
- Where is Zhi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,123 people named Zhi in 2020, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhi compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Zhi is the 436th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhiThe 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, “Zhi” — the 436th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.