Žele

surname · Latin script

Meaning: jelly

Žele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 117K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 840K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

168 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŽeleLatin(measured from records)
ЗелеCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

jelly

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Žele 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 Žele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1681 in 2M228—1
SI Slovenia≈51 est.≈1 in 41K—Žele5
HR Croatia361 in 117K36Žele12
ES Spain251 in 2M25——
AR Argentina221 in 2.1M22——
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10——
BE Belgium91 in 1.3M9—1

168 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Žele is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zélé, Zele

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Australia, South Africa

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Zele, Zelé

  • Czech name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Zele, Želé

  • Spanish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Chile, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zele, Zélé, Zelé, Zēlę, Zéle

  • Indonesian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zele

2 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(measured from records)

Žele is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, vocative singular of žel

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

  • In Latvian, Receklis, galerts, ko iegūst, novārot teļa galvu, kājas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Žele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202136#16,552
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202134—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Žele mean, and where does it come from?
jelly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Žele have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 168 people named Žele, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Žele?
In the United States, the national register counted 168 people named Žele in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Žele”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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