Zulay

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Зулай in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Zülay in TR Türkiye.

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.

Languages●

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◐

Zulay is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Catalan given name490 records spelled Zulay3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Peru

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Zülay

• Arabic given name164 records spelled Zulay2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Russia

  Also written Zülay

• Hindi given name138 records spelled Zulay3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, India

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Zülay

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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 77 years between 1935–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Zulay Pérez de Layrisseb. 1930VEVenezuelan biologist and researcher
• Zulay Garcíab. 1949VEVenezuelan actress
• Zulay Rodríguezb. 1969PAex member of parliament in the National Assembly of Panama
• Zulay Henaob. 1979COColombian-American actress
• Zulay Colmenaresb. 1981COColombian athlete
• Zulay Camachob. 2002COColombian cyclist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 189 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zulay?

We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Zulay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Zulay have the most bearers?

Zulay is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled zulay.

How common is Zulay compared with other names?

In Venezuela, Zulay is the 158th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.

Is Zulay a male or female name?

Zulay is a female 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.