The Zaia surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 409 people carried this name — #50,960 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is up 25% from 326 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 95 people named Zaia live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 72 people named Zaia.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Gironde.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
103 people named Zaia is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Zaia,
with a public archive behind them.
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Luca Zaia 1968– · politician
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Zaia.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Zaia is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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