Žalud

surname · Latin script

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

Žalud is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: acorn.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 176K
  • HRCroatia1 in 325K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

658 people

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zalud in CZ Czechia, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

acorn

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Žalud counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Žalud is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia6581 in 16K658Zalud24
US United States2971 in 1.1M298Zalud15
SK Slovakia311 in 176K31Žalud8
HR Croatia131 in 325K13——
GB United Kingdom——10Žalud4

658 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling žalud. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Zalud

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zalud

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written Zalud

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France

    Also written Zalud

1 further group 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950Eduard Žalud, b. 1848Augustin Žalud, b. 1872Zikmund Žalud, b. 1881Otakar Žalud, b. 1885Václav Žalud, b. 1894Ervín Žalud, b. 1901Stanislav Žalud, b. 1932Jiří Žalud, b. 1936

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(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Žalud mean, and where does it come from?
acorn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Žalud have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 658 people named Žalud, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zalud.
Where is Žalud most common?
Žalud is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Žalud?
In Czechia, the national register counted 658 people named Žalud, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BEalud

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Žalud”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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