Zin
given name · Burmese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: forma reduzida setentrional de Zino.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 11◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 11K
- THThailand1 in 42K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈439 ●
- #965 ●
- Sources
- 105 ●
- 1 in 61K ◐
across 6 countries
of 16M given names
21K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
forma reduzida setentrional de Zino
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #5 | 2,718,697 | 3.5K rec. | — | 1.7M | Zin | 95 |
| MY Malaysia | #806 | 6,180 | 11K rec. | — | — | Zin | 58 |
| TH Thailand | — | 3,395 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Zin | 80 |
| VN Vietnam | #987 | 1,504 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Zin | 50 |
| SG Singapore | #575 | 871 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Zin | 40 |
| US United States | — | 250 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 550 | Zin | 105 |
| MA Morocco | — | 177 | 302 rec. | — | — | Zin | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 166△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 61K | 166 | — | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 162 | 166 rec. | — | — | Zin | 36 |
| IN India | — | 65 | 51 rec. | — | — | Zin | 12 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 62 | 111 rec. | — | listed | Zin | 6 |
| CN China | — | 55 | 4 rec. | — | — | Zin | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Burmese2.7M99%
- Malay4.3K1%
- Thai3.5K1%
- English3.4K1%
- Arabic1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Burmese | 2,722,203 | 99% |
| Malay | 4,258 | 1% |
| Thai | 3,472 | 1% |
| English | 3,421 | 1% |
| Arabic | 1,689 | 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●
Zin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, Variante di Zini
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Basque, ‘oath’, ‘truth’; ‘true’, ‘faithful’; ‘very’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Dutch, a) sentence b) sense
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, meaning, significance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 16 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 21 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 25 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 28 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 30 |
| 2014 | 32 |
| 2015 | 39 |
| 2016 | 42 |
| 2017 | 44 |
| 2018 | 53 |
| 2019 | 52 |
| 2020 | 51 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Wiktor Zinb. 1925PLPolish architect (1925-2007)
- Claudio Zinb. 1945ITItalian-Argentinian journalist and politician
- Stan Zinb. 1958CACanadian economist
- Hernán Zinb. 1971ARItalian-Argentine filmmaker
- Valentina ZinITresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6126-3467
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 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames. | 2023 | 1.7M | #5 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 864 | #10,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 550 | #42,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 338 | #59,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 250 | #22,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 184 | #22,790 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 166 | #5,964 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 163 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 125 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 125 | #25,124 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 109 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zin?
- We estimate roughly 439 people bear Zin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zin have the most bearers?
- Zin is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled zin.
- How common is Zin compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Zin is the 5th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
- Is Zin a male or female name?
- Zin 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 Zin mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma reduzida setentrional de Zino
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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, “Zin” — the 5th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.