Zephyrinus

given name · English · Latin script

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

Zephyrinus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in English and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 2.7K◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 5.7K
  • PEPeru1 in 8.2K

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

≈3.6K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
115 ●

238K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

CeferinoLatin · Spanish●336K records

Locally spelled Ceferino in AR Argentina, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 14 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

pope

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Zephyrinus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#382249,920169K rec.—241Ceferino69
PE Peru#84427,38124K rec.——Ceferino37
PH Philippines—13,18212K rec.—listedCeferino40
VE Venezuela—8,6774.4K rec.—2KCeferino13
MX Mexico—8,1989.5K rec.—27Ceferino57
PY Paraguay#3175,5062.8K rec.——Ceferino16
CL Chile#8995,11089 rec.—1Ceferino19
ES Spain—2,5332K rec.1 in 20K2.8KCeferino84
UY Uruguay#4241,7841.5K rec.—1Ceferino17
US United States—9365.1K rec.1 in 355K936Ceferino115
CR Costa Rica—81273 rec.1 in 63K81—9
NL Netherlands—34△9 rec.1 in 508K34—4

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Languages●

  • English8541%
  • Dutch4522%
  • Western Frisian3416%
  • Swahili115%
  • Spanish94%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English8541%
Dutch4522%
Western Frisian3416%
Swahili115%
Spanish94%

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◐

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

  • French surname2 records spelled Zephyrinus3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Cameroon

    Also written Zephyrin, Zéphyrin

14 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 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Zephyrinus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—34#8,475
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—12#25,977
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593
VA Vatican CityHoly See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names)—1#82

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 Zephyrinus?
We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Zephyrinus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Zephyrinus have the most bearers?
Zephyrinus is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ceferino.
How common is Zephyrinus compared with other names?
In Argentina, Zephyrinus is the 382nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Zephyrinus a male or female name?
Zephyrinus 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 Zephyrinus mean?
Recorded meaning: pope
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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, “Zephyrinus” — the 382nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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