Zik
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/zic/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated · uncertain
Zik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 210K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 220Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3Mfew records
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zik 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 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Zik | 22 |
| MA Morocco | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Zik | 5 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | listed | Zik | 115 |
| BR Brazil | 88 | 1 in 2.4M | 88 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 630K | — | Zik | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Zik | 8 |
| AT Austria | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 434K | — | Zik | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 211K | listed | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Zik is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 639-3 language code for Zimakani.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, zipper, zip fastener
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, stomach
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ksb, bury
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)- Johannes Zickb. 1702DEnot in their usual namefresco painter (1702-1762)
- Januarius Zickb. 1730DEnot in their usual namepainter and architect (1730-1797)
- Alexander Zickb. 1845DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter (1845-1907)
- Rolf Zickb. 1921DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist
- Bob Zickb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1927-2017)
- Adir Zikb. 1939ILIsraeli journalist (1939–2005)
- Gisela Zickb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman film editor
- Wolfgang Zickb. 1948DEnot in their usual nameDr. rer. nat. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover 1979
- Andreas Zickb. 1962DEnot in their usual nameGerman social psychologist
- Bruce Zicknot in their usual nameartist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #69,672 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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
- How do you pronounce Zik?
- In Turkish /zic/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Zik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Zik in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zik.
- How common is the name Zik?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 88 people named Zik, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zikThe 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, “Zik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.