Zul

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

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

Zul is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Collect, accumulate, highest degree.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 2.7K◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 10K
  • BNBrunei1 in 1.3K

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

≈4 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
119 ●

28K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 750K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

Collect, accumulate, highest degree

Sources 1

  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Where in the world●

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

Where Zul is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#15424,39823K rec.——Zul66
ID Indonesia#7799,1032.8K rec.—listedZul119
SG Singapore#644760861 rec.—#8Zul30
US United States—370407 rec.—203Zul76
PH Philippines—16694 rec.——Zul8
PK Pakistan—13027 rec.——Zul20
IN India—11340 rec.—4Zul18
CA Canada—7570 rec.——Zul14
GB United Kingdom—5344 rec.——Zul17
TH Thailand—4540 rec.——Zul11
PE Peru—3941 rec.——Zul4
VN Vietnam—2639 rec.——Zul9

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

Languages●

  • Indonesian19K42%
  • Malay11K23%
  • English3.8K8%
  • Vietnamese3.4K7%
  • Spanish2.3K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian19,41442%
Malay10,51323%
English3,7928%
Vietnamese3,4147%
Spanish2,2535%

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◐

Zul is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6.7K records spelled Zul9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Australia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zuel, Zül, Zuël

  • Spanish given name6.6K records spelled Zul6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Malaysia, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Žûĺ, Zül, Zúl, Żul

  • Bangla given name441 records spelled Zul30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Julu, Jul, জল, জুল, জুলু

  • Turkish given name310 records spelled Zul6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Türkiye, United States, Singapore

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Zül, Zúl

39 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.

Other recorded senses●

Zul is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, second-person singular present indicative of zullen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, masculine singular past active participle of zout

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Zulu.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In och, Collect, accumulate, highest degree

    as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

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.

Evidence●

Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Zul
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010203#90,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020179#106,101
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000105#144,908
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—21#4,247
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#54,451
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#53,831
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#31,618
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—4—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#60,483
MX MexicoCDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present)20072—
MX MexicoCDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present)20042—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zul?
We estimate roughly 4 people bear Zul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Zul have the most bearers?
Zul is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled zul.
How common is Zul compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Zul is the 154th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
Is Zul a male or female name?
Zul 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 Zul mean?
Recorded meaning: Collect, accumulate, highest degree
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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, “Zul” — the 154th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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