Zouma
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a large, weekly market in parts of Madagascar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zouma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burkina Faso than in any other country.
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 33K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 40K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Burkina Faso (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a large, weekly market in parts of Madagascar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zouma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | Zouma | 7 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 40K | Zouma | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 108K | Zouma | 2 |
| CF Central African Republic | #999 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 33K | Zouma | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 309K | Zouma | 2 |
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.
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)
- Lionel Zoumab. 1993FRFrench and Central African footballer (born 1993)
- Kurt Zoumab. 1994FRFrench footballer (born 1994)
- Yoan Zoumab. 1998FRFrench association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Zouma mean, and where does it come from?
- a large, weekly market in parts of Madagascar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zouma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Zouma in Burkina Faso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zouma.
- How common is the name Zouma?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,800 people in Burkina Faso have Zouma as their first surname, about 1 in 11 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Zouma compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Zouma is the 999th most common surname of 1,109 surnames 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/zoumaThe 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, “Zouma” — the 999th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.