Zvir

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/svɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 38Kas Звір(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 1.1Mas Звир
  • SISlovenia1 in 131K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zvir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 named Звір, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 131K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZvirLatin(measured from records)
ЗвірCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Звір in UA Ukraine and Звир in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zvir 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 Zvir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈1,200 est.≈1 in 38K—Звір32
PL Poland1461 in 262K73—3
RU Russia≈130 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Звир79
BR Brazil971 in 2.2M97——
ES Spain211 in 2.4M21—1
SI Slovenia161 in 131K16——

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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Zvir is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Звир

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Žvir

17 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zvir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Zver'.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, beast, wild animal

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Zvir,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Zvir?
A machine transcription gives /svɪɹ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
In which country does Zvir have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Звір in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Zvir most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zvir is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 131 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zvir?
In Poland, the national register counted 146 people named Zvir in 2026, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.

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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, “Zvir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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