Zerihun

given name · Amharic · Latin script

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

Zerihun is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia. It appears chiefly in Amharic and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia1 in 1.6K◐
  • SESweden1 in 300K
  • FIFinland1 in 1.1M

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

≈220 ●

across 4 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
80 ●

4.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 300K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

ZerihunLatin · Amharic●2K records
ዘሪሁንEthiopic · Amharic●842 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Zerihun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia#1322,2982.3K rec.——Zerihun30
US United States—1761.9K rec.1 in 1.9M285Zerihun80
GB United Kingdom—4574 rec.——Zerihun15
AU Australia—3761 rec.——Zerihun12
SE Sweden—34229 rec.1 in 300K34Zerihun8
DE Germany—2853 rec.——Zerihun16
NL Netherlands—2123 rec.—5Zerihun9
TR Türkiye—2122 rec.——Zerihun3
ZA South Africa—1920 rec.——Zerihun5
CA Canada—1311 rec.——Zerihun6
IT Italy—818 rec.——Zerihun4
NO Norway—68 rec.—28Zerihun5

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

Languages●

  • Amharic2K46%
  • 1.3K30%
  • English47711%
  • Arabic952%
  • Spanish541%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Amharic1,95846%
1,29030%
English47711%
Arabic952%
Spanish541%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Zerihun2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

    Also written Zerīhun

33 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 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Zerihun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020285#73,330
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020176#40,852
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010147#118,185
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—34#17,808
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—30#18,937
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#36,625
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#30,777
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#32,202
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202415#45,119
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14#21,897
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205#40,852
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20265#5,127

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 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zerihun?
We estimate roughly 220 people bear Zerihun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Zerihun have the most bearers?
Zerihun is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled zerihun.
How common is Zerihun compared with other names?
In Ethiopia, Zerihun is the 132nd most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
Is Zerihun a male or female name?
Zerihun 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Zerihun” — the 132nd most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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