ZuZu
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/θuθu/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
ZuZu is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 93Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 110Kfew records
- EGEgypt≈1 in 600Kfew records
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈580 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce ZuZu
- Spanish:/θuθu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)ZuZu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | ZuZu | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | ZuZu | 6 |
| US United States | 300 | 1 in 1.1M | 288 | ZuZu | 69 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 892K | — | ZuZu | 11 |
| EG Egypt | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 604K | — | ZuZu | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | ZuZu | 6 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | ZuZu | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | ZuZu | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)ZuZu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bbn, breast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, imbecile, fool, idiot, simpleton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wiv, breast; milk; suckle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbn, female breast
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Basque, ( V-ple ap. A Apend ). Motivo. Cf. Arriaga LexBi: " Chuchu, [...] se usa además por pretexto".
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, lieto savienojumā "zuzu, zuzo" šūpojot, iemidzinot bērnu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Zuzu Cavaquinhob. 1845BRBrazilian musician
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce ZuZu?
- In Spanish /θuθu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is ZuZu a male or female name?
- ZuZu is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named ZuZu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 581 people named ZuZu in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ZuZu. After it come Saudi Arabia, United States, Nigeria and Egypt; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name ZuZu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 300 people named ZuZu in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/zuzuThe 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, “ZuZu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.