Zügel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rein (used to control a horse)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Zügel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 301K
- GHGhana≈1 in 665K
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 Zügel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 301K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 named Zuegel, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zugel in US United States, NL Netherlands, NZ New Zealand and 1 more and Zuegel in ZW Zimbabwe, PK Pakistan.
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)rein (used to control a horse)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zügel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Zuegel | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 838K | — | Zuegel | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Zügel | 39 |
| US United States | 167 | 1 in 2M | 167 | Zugel | 99 |
| BR Brazil | 121 | 1 in 1.7M | 121 | — | — |
| GH Ghana | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Zugel | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 744K | — | Zugel | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Zugel | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Zügel 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 German, Swabian 'peg, pin'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Heinrich von Zügelb. 1850DEGerman painter (1850-1941)
- Willy Zügelb. 1876DEGerman sculptor (1876-1950)
- Oskar Zügelb. 1882DEGerman textile artist and painter (1882-1968)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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 Zügel mean, and where does it come from?
- rein (used to control a horse) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zügel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Zuegel in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zügel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Zügel in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zügel?
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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%BCgelThe 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, “Zügel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.