Zâ

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 139K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 172K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈770 people, est.

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

25 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zã in DZ Algeria, Zà in MA Morocco and Žâ in LY Libya.

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)

recorded in Vietnamese

复姓 , 见 《 左 传 》(1127) 。 汉 时 复姓 ,也 见 « AS ED WE FR P0) (864) 。 I» X% 和 及 gonggli

Sources 3

  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zâ 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 Zâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#716≈770 est.≈1 in 56K—Zã10
BR Brazil—2751 in 770K275——
MA Morocco—≈210 est.≈1 in 172K—Zà21
US United States—1371 in 2.4M576—21
TN Tunisia—≈84 est.≈1 in 139K—Zâ8
LY Libya—≈12 est.≈1 in 560K—Žâ4

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Zâ is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Tunisia, Morocco

    Also written Za, Zà, Z'A, Zä, Zā

  • English given name62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia

    Languages: English, Afrikaans, German

    Also written Za, Zae, Z-A, Zä, Zà

  • Portuguese surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Za, Z'A, Z-A, Zá, Zà

  • a separate name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, Thailand, Japan

    Also written Žå, Žà, Žã, Zã, Žá

  • Danish surname35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Zaa, Zāã, Zà, Ză, Zå

  • Indonesian given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Za', Żā, Zà, Žą, Žä

6 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)

Zâ is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, Gheg form of zë (“voice”)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Zâ have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 767 people named Zâ in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zã.
How common is the name Zâ?
In Brazil, the national register counted 275 people named Zâ, about 1 in 770 thousand residents.
How common is Zâ compared with other names?
In Algeria, Zâ is the 716th most common surname of 89,473 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, “Zâ” — the 716th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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