Given name & surname

Zoli

“sultan”

Zoli is a masculine given name. It is used in Italian and Hungarian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Zoli is a diminutive of Zoltán. Zoltán goes back to a word meaning “sultan.”

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Where it comes from

Zoli is a diminutive of Zoltán. Zoltán comes from Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Zoli through the years

Babies since 1880
18
0 boys · 18 girls
Most popular year
2011
9 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Zoli in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2011–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Zoli’s family of names

In Hungarian usage, Zoli is a diminutive of Zoltán. In Greek usage, Zoli as a surname is a transliteration of Ζολί. In Greek usage, Zoli as a surname is a transliteration of Ζόλι.

Walk Zoli’s family in the name graph

ZoliΖώληΖόλιΖολίZolliZoltán

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Zoli

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Sibling ideas

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