Zanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern coinage, apparently a shortened form of Suzanna (A concise dictionary of first names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Zanna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 511(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 32K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 511 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Žanna in EE Estonia, TM Turkmenistan.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Modern coinage, apparently a shortened form of Suzanna. Zara & Of uncertain origin. It is Sometimes said to be of Arabic origin, from zahr/flower’, but is more probably a respelled form of pSara. It was given by Princess Anne and Mark Philips to their second child (b. 1981), which aroused considerable comment at the time as it was a depart-
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zanna, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zanna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Zanna | 38 |
| LV Latvia | 3,685 | 1 in 511 | 3.7K | Zanna | 20 |
| US United States | 646 | 1 in 515K | 641 | Zanna | 171 |
| TM Turkmenistan | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Žanna | 1 |
| PL Poland | 354 | 1 in 108K | 354 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 323 | 1 in 32K | 323 | Zanna | 29 |
| EE Estonia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 10 | Žanna | 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Zanna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma feminina de Zanne, Zanni; matronímico de Zanna/Joana
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Zanni
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
English: modern coinage, apparently originating as a short form of Suzanna (see SUSANNA ).
as a word
In Italian, the tooth of an animal; especially the tusk of an elephant, boar etc. and the fang of a dog, wolf etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In egl, dinner, supper
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Goni Modu Burab. 1960NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician
- Gabriella Wildeb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Elissa CameronNZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand wildlife biologist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zanna a male or female name?
- Zanna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV).
- What does the name Zanna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern coinage, apparently a shortened form of Suzanna.
- Where does the name Zanna come from?
- Modern coinage, apparently a shortened form of Suzanna. Zara & Of uncertain origin. It is Sometimes said to be of Arabic origin, from zahr/flower’, but is more probably a respelled form of pSara. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Zanna?
- In the etymology graph, Susana, Sue and Suzanne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Zanna?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Zanna in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zanna. After it come Latvia, United States, Turkmenistan and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zanna is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 511 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zanna?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3,685 people named Zanna, about 1 in 511 residents.
What do you want to know about Zanna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zannaThe 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, “Zanna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.