Zaituni

given name · Swahili · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zaituni is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tanzania. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: olive, guava.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania1 in 1.8K◐
  • KEKenya1 in 13K
  • UGUganda1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

10K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
20 ●

2.9K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

olive, guava

Sources 1

  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Zaituni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania#1107,2722.7K rec.—2Zaituni20
KE Kenya#8212,293161 rec.—listedZaituni13
UG Uganda#20410318 rec.——Zaituni9
US United States—3336 rec.——Zaituni15
GB United Kingdom—94 rec.——Zaituni6
ZA South Africa—89 rec.——Zaituni3
AU Australia—76 rec.—1Zaituni5
AE United Arab Emirates—78 rec.——Zaituni6
TR Türkiye—55 rec.——Zaituni2
ID Indonesia——0 rec.—listed—1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Swahili8.2K78%
  • English1.3K12%
  • Indonesian3063%
  • Arabic2192%
  • Hindi661%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swahili8,22878%
English1,27612%
Indonesian3063%
Arabic2192%
Hindi661%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zaituni is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name65 records spelled Zaituni2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania

    Also written Zaïtuni

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence●

Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaituni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TZ TanzaniaINEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results20202#11
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)20061—
ID IndonesiaKPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub)———
KE KenyaWhat's in a Name (Zawawi, 1993)———

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zaituni?
Our records include 10,460 bearers of Zaituni across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Zaituni have the most bearers?
Zaituni is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled zaituni.
How common is Zaituni compared with other names?
In Tanzania, Zaituni is the 110th most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.
Is Zaituni a male or female name?
Zaituni is a female 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 Zaituni mean?
Recorded meaning: olive, guava
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Zaituni” — the 110th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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