Ziggy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: zigzaggy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɪɡi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ziggy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 40K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 49K
- DKDenmark1 in 50K
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
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,066 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
zigzaggy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ziggy, 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)
Ziggy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,066 | 1 in 312K | 887 | Ziggy | 42 |
| NL Netherlands | 430 | 1 in 40K | 354 | Ziggy | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 207 | 1 in 49K | 207 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 117 | 1 in 50K | 99 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | Ziggy | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | — |
1,066 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Ziggy Steinbergb. 1901USAmerican screenwriter
- Ziggy Elmanb. 1914USAmerican musician
- Ziggy Czarobskib. 1922football player (born 1922)
- Ziggy Marleyb. 1968JMJamaican reggae musician (born 1968)
- Ziggy Hoodb. 1987USAmerican football player
- Ziggy Albertsb. 1994AUAustralian singer and songwriter from Sunshine Coast, Queensland
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)
Attested in 36 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Ziggy a male or female name?
- Ziggy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ziggy mean, and where does it come from?
- zigzaggy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ziggy?
- A machine transcription gives /zɪɡi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ziggy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ziggy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziggy.
- Where is Ziggy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ziggy is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ziggy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,066 people named Ziggy in 2020, about 1 in 312 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ziggy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ziggyThe 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, “Ziggy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.