Zim

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Gali būti iš *Dzimaitis, toliau žr

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

Zim is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 850K
  • FIFinland≈1 in 2.8M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

≈120 people, est.

Record sources
130 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

Locally spelled Zíṃ in DE Germany.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Lithuanian

Gali būti iš *Dzimaitis, toliau žr. Dimaitis

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Zim 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.

Where Zim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.9M162Zim130
DE Germany≈24 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Zíṃ18
BR Brazil≈16 est.≈1 in 13M387—1
SE Sweden121 in 850K12——
PL Poland≈9 est.≈1 in 4.2M2——
FI Finland≈2 est.≈1 in 2.8M15—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Zim is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Zìm, Zîm, Źīm, Žim, Zïm

  • Bangla given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

    Also written Jim, Jima, Zeem, জিম, Zima

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Zim 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 goh, second-person singular imperative of zëman

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Mesme.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kg, become extinguished, extinguish

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In nyn, become extinguished

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In Ganda, lose lustre

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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)

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Zim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—387#21,342
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010162#109,258
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000162#102,691
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020152#120,164
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#407,242
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#85,079
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Zim mean?
Recorded meaning: Gali būti iš *Dzimaitis, toliau žr.
In which country does Zim have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 116 people named Zim in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zim.
Where is Zim most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zim is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zim?
In Sweden, the national register counted 12 people named Zim, about 1 in 850 thousand residents.

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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, “Zim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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