Zip
org · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zip is a name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It is written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 95K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 103K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
Fermeture à glissière étanche qui correspond peu ou prou à la fermeture Éclair. Le verbe zipper qui en dérive signifie garnir d’un zip. Voir Fermeture Éclair .
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,929 | 76% |
| GB United Kingdom | 415 | 8% |
| BR Brazil | 160 | 3% |
| AU Australia | 149 | 3% |
| ZA South Africa | 136 | 3% |
≈4,789 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
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●
- Bohdan Zipb. 1929CAMember of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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●
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 10 | #28,743 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #17,921 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #247,102 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #300,751 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,537 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-06 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zip?
- Our records include 4,789 bearers of Zip across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Zip have the most bearers?
- Zip is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zip”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.