Zéman
surname · Latin script
Zéman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 8,740 people, counted by MVČR. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Czech zeměnín. By surface analysis, zem + -an. Zéman is also written Земан in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 3.3K
- HRCroatia1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zéman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,740 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zéman in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zeman in CZ Czechia, US United States, SK Slovakia and 3 more.
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)Inherited from Old Czech zeměnín. By surface analysis, zem + -an.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zéman is found
(measured from records)Zéman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #32 | 8,740 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.8K | Zeman | 119 |
| US United States | — | 3,843 | 1 in 87K | 3.9K | Zeman | 92 |
| SK Slovakia | #141 | 1,647 | 1 in 3.3K | 1.6K | Zeman | 66 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,325 | 1 in 29K | 665 | Zeman | 54 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Zeman | 12 |
| HR Croatia | — | 404 | 1 in 10K | 404 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Zeman | 28 |
8,740 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 Zéman mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Czech zeměnín. By surface analysis, zem + -an. Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zéman?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Zéman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeman. After it come United States, Slovakia, Poland and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zéman most common?
- Zéman is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zéman?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 8,740 people named Zéman, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Zéman compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Zéman is the 32nd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zéman?
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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%A9manThe 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, “Zéman” — ranked 45th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.