Zine
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 73K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zine 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.
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 dz-kaggle-names register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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)
Zine is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
I have four girls
as a nameThe book of African names
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of zinuti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ltg, message, news, information, signal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, roof terrace
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dennis Zineb. 1947USLos Angeles City Council member
- Sonia Zineb. 1975FRFrench planetary scientist
- Chakib ZineMACinematographer
- Karol ZineINactor
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 357 | #22,858 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 94 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Zine mean, and where does it come from?
- A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zine?
- A machine transcription gives /zin/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Zine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Zine in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zine.
- How common is the name Zine?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 357 people named Zine, about 1 in 593 thousand residents.
- How common is Zine compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Zine is the 232nd most common surname of 211,124 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zineThe 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, “Zine” — the 232nd most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.