Ziga
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ziga is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script.
- SISlovenia1 in 266◐
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.9K ●
- Sources
- 9 ●
- 1 in 266 ◐
across 5 countries
20 records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #56 | 7,894△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 266 | 7.9K | Ziga | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7 | — | 1 in 838K | 26 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 8 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 1 | — | 1 in 1.9M | 2 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | — | — | — | 2.3K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | — | — | 1.4K | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 7 rec. | — | 337 | — | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | — | — | — | 85 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 3 rec. | — | 27 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | — | 20 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | — | 18 | — | — |
Roughly 7.9K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 266). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian16K89%
- Slovenian4513%
- English3362%
- Spanish2051%
- Hindi1301%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 15,806 | 89% |
| Slovenian | 451 | 3% |
| English | 336 | 2% |
| Spanish | 205 | 1% |
| Hindi | 130 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ziga is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ( Aizk → Lcq 59, H (que cita a Izt) ). "Malva" Aizk . "Espèce d'arbrisseau" H . v. ziguin. Probinzia onetako lurrak bere griñaz ematen dituen zuaitzik ezagutuenak dira, Aretxa, Pagoa, Artea, [...] Erramua, Ziga, Ezpala, Gañabera, [...]. Izt C 124s.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
- Venancio Zigab. 1904PHFilipino lawyer and politician
- David Kwaku Zigab. 1922GHGhanaian politician and potter
- Victor Zigab. 1945PHMember of the Senate of the Philippines (1945–2021)
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 337 | #63,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 308 | #64,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 230 | #77,472 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 27 | #39,341 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #18,591 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #30,800 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18 | #27,528 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #27,311 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 16 | #4,831 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #42,405 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ziga?
- We estimate roughly 7.9 thousand people bear Ziga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ziga have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.9 thousand people bear Ziga in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ziga.
- Where is Ziga most common?
- Ziga is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 266 people carrying it.
- How common is Ziga compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Ziga is the 56th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
- Is Ziga a male or female name?
- Ziga 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
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, “Ziga” — the 56th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.