Zoni
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of zonare:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/soni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zoni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 139K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 87K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 150K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of zonare:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 87K | listed | Zoni | 14 |
| AR Argentina | 328 | 1 in 139K | 328 | Zoni | 38 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Zoni | 21 |
| BR Brazil | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 89 | Zoni | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 56 | 1 in 150K | 56 | Zoni | 5 |
| FR France | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 7 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 909K | — | Zoni | 1 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Zoni is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a citizen of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive singular of Zonus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ote, to cry, weep
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)
- Bruno Zonib. 1911ITb. 12-26-11; d. 8-10-86; artist
- Manuela Zonib. 1960ITItalian tennis player
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 328 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 126 | #53,116 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 56 | #17,076 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Zoni mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of zonare: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zoni?
- A machine transcription gives /soni/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zoni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 717 people named Zoni in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoni.
- How common is the name Zoni?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 328 people named Zoni, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoniThe 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, “Zoni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.