Zhì
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zhì is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 88K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 107K
- DKDenmark1 in 183K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
3,123 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zhi in US United States.
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)
姓 , 见 《 姓 苑 》(444) ,也 见 《 云 南 省 革命 烈士 英名 录 》(444) 和 《中 国 姓氏 大 全 》(91) 。 今 汉 、 傣 等 民族 均 有 此 姓 (561) 。 (47) SR BR. T (444) 江 及 新 疆 布尔 津 (561) 、 甘 書 酒泉 , 上 海 等 地 均 有 此 姓 。 怕 二 可 康 i pdadingpingkdngba
Sources 2
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhì 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.
3,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lü Zhib. 241CNEmpress Regent of the Han dynasty (241–180 BC)
- Cao Zhib. 250cao Wei prince and Western Jin official (died 288)
- Emperor Gaozong of Tangb. 628CNnot in their usual nameEmperor of the Tang Dynasty (628-683) (r. 649-683)
- Lu Zhib. 754CNChinese chancellor
- Nguyễn Tri Phươngb. 1800VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese general
- Bing Zhib. 1886CNChinese zoologist
- Tseng Kwong Chib. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican photographer, born in Hong Kong (1950-1990)
- Shen Zhihuab. 1950CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Zhi Duan ChenCNbotanist
- Liu Zhimember of the Han dynasty imperial family
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zhì a male or female name?
- Zhì is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Zhì have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Zhì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhi.
- Where is Zhì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhì is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhì?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,123 people named Zhì in 2020, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zhì?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zh%C3%ACThe 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, “Zhì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.