Zizi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: 'animal shelter'; also an Nguni people name in Lesotho
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/zɪzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zizi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 20K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 33K
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 Zizi 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Swahili: 'animal shelter'; also an Nguni people name in Lesotho.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zizi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #997 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Zizi | 43 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 431K | — | Zizi | 21 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Zizi | 21 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Zizi | 41 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Zizi | 21 |
| GE Georgia | #898 | 251as ზიზი | 1 in 16K | 251 | Zizi | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 209 | 1 in 1M | 251 | — | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Zizi | 4 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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)Zizi 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.
Animal shelter.
as a nameThe African book of names
In French, willy (British), pee-pee (US) (penis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, stable, cowshed, pen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-wmp-pro, disgusted, revolted
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Xhosa, dimness
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Zizi Halamab. 1905PLactor
- Zizi Makrib. 1924GRGreek engraver
- Zizi Faredb. 1954EGEgyptian actress
- Zizi CardowNGNigerian fashion designer
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 251 | #22,079 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 235 | #12,619 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 209 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 186 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 175 | #24,619 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 125 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 77 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 61 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 55 | #27,517 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 48 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 40 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 37 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Zizi mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: 'animal shelter'; also an Nguni people name in Lesotho. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Zizi?
- A machine transcription gives /zɪzi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Zizi a male or female name?
- Zizi is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Zizi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Zizi in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zizi.
- How common is the name Zizi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 209 people named Zizi in 2022, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Zizi compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Zizi is the 997th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zizi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ziziThe 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, “Zizi” — the 997th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.