Zonta

surname · Latin script

Meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Bonazonta

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

/zõtɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain

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Zonta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • SISlovenia1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 26Kfew records
  • BRBrazil1 in 48K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

4,449 people

Record sources
94 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Portuguese

redução popular e coloquial de Bonazonta

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

How Zonta is read

(measured from records)

Zonta is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese66%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Zonta in Portuguese.

  • Spanish9.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Zonta in Spanish.

  • English8.9%

    international women 's organization

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Italian6.4%

    redução popular e coloquial de Bonazonta

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Zonta 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 Zonta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—4,4491 in 48K4.4KZonta94
IT Italy—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 26KlistedZonta36
FR France—≈140 est.≈1 in 482K14Zonta1
SI Slovenia—1181 in 18K118—2
US United States—≈84 est.≈1 in 4MlistedZonta29
HR Croatia—661 in 64K66——
CR Costa Rica#992621 in 82K62Zonta9

4,449 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Zonta is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Slovenia

    Also written Žonta

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Žonta

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Žonta

35 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Gasparo Zonta, b. 1885Roberto Zonta, b. 1901Emil Zonta, b. 1935Milton Zonta, b. 1960María Lorena Zonta, b. 1975Ricardo Zonta, b. 1976María Virginia Zonta, b. 1989Nicola Zonta, b. 2000

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)
FormalPrezado(a) Zonta,Dear Zonta, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Zonta,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Zonta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.4K#2,464
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—118#3,817
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202166#10,893
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202163—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—62#1,919
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198117—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19318—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Zonta?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /zõtɐ/; in Spanish /sonta/; in Italian /zonta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What does the name Zonta mean?
Recorded meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Bonazonta
In which country does Zonta have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Zonta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zonta.
Where is Zonta most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zonta is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zonta?
In Brazil, the national register counted 4,449 people named Zonta, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
How common is Zonta compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Zonta is the 992nd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Zonta” — the 992nd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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