Zys
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Belegform mit anlautendem Z-/Cz-/Tsch-; historische Schreibvariante (1535-48)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zjʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zys is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 71K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 977K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.4M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
542 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
Belegform mit anlautendem Z-/Cz-/Tsch-; historische Schreibvariante (1535-48).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zys 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 542 | 1 in 71K | 279 | Zys | 34 |
| BR Brazil | 150 | 1 in 1.4M | 150 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Zys | 9 |
542 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 279 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 279 | #11,963 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 263 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 263 | #12,445 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 150 | #46,374 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #65,183 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Zys?
- A machine transcription gives /zjʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Zys mean?
- Recorded meaning: Belegform mit anlautendem Z-/Cz-/Tsch-; historische Schreibvariante (1535-48).
- In which country does Zys have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 542 people named Zys, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zys.
- Where is Zys most common?
- Zys is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zys?
- In Poland, the national register counted 542 people named Zys in 2026, about 1 in 71 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/zysThe 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, “Zys”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.