Žemgulys

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Plg. Žemgulis (žr.). Galbūt pravardinės pvd

Žemgulys is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LTLithuania≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 607K
  • SESweden1 in 3.4M

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.

Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)

≈95 people, est.

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Lithuania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zemgulys in GB United Kingdom, NO Norway.

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. Žemgulis (žr.). Galbūt pravardinės pvd. iš liet. žemė ir gulėti

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Žemgulys 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 Žemgulys is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania≈95 est.≈1 in 29K—Žemgulys20
NO Norway91 in 607K9Zemgulys5
SE Sweden31 in 3.4M3——
GB United Kingdom———Zemgulys12

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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Žemgulys is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Also written Zemgulys

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)

Žemgulys is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Lithuanian, Plg. Žerigulis (žr.). Galbūt pravardinės pvd. iš liet. žėmė ir gulėti,

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Žemgulys mean?
Recorded meaning: Plg. Žemgulis (žr.). Galbūt pravardinės pvd.
In which country does Žemgulys have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 95 people named Žemgulys in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled žemgulys.
How common is the name Žemgulys?
In Norway, the national register counted 9 people named Žemgulys, about 1 in 607 thousand 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, “Žemgulys”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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