Zélle
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zélle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German zelle, from Old High German zella (9th century), from Ecclesiastical Latin cella. The cytological sense (17th c.) is a semantic loan from English cell (coined by Robert Hooke).
- NLNetherlands1 in 224K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 934K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 224K (inferred from the name graph)
356 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zelle in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
- Middle High Germanzelle(measured from records)
- Old High Germanzella9th century(measured from records)
- Ecclesiastical Latincella(measured from records)
- Englishcellcoined by Robert Hooke(measured from records)
From Middle High German zelle, from Old High German zella (9th century), from Ecclesiastical Latin cella. The cytological sense (17th c.) is a semantic loan from English cell (coined by Robert Hooke).
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zélle 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 356 | 1 in 934K | 356 | Zelle | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 77 | 1 in 224K | 77 | Zelle | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 3 |
356 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zélle mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German zelle, from Old High German zella (9th century), from Ecclesiastical Latin cella. The cytological sense (17th c.) is a semantic loan from English cell (coined by Robert Hooke). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zélle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 356 people named Zélle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelle.
- Where is Zélle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zélle is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 224 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zélle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 356 people named Zélle in 2010, about 1 in 934 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A9lleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Zélle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.