Züger

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Zueger(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.4K
  • HRCroatia1 in 92K

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 Züger 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,800 people, est.

Sources
133 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZuegerLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zuger in CH Switzerland, FR France, CN China and 1 more and Zueger in US United States, LI Liechtenstein, GH Ghana.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Züger 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 Züger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈5,800 est.≈1 in 242K—Zuger1
CH Switzerland#3692,4781 in 3.4K2.5KZuger42
US United States—245as Zueger1 in 1.4M245Zueger133
FR France—≈110 est.≈1 in 618K19Zuger68
GH Ghana—≈88 est.≈1 in 332K—Zueger1
HR Croatia—461 in 92K46——
HK Hong Kong—≈25 est.≈1 in 286K—Zuger1
LI Liechtenstein#115——14Zueger3

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)

Züger is also recorded as 6 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 Žuger, Zuger

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Zuger

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, Argentina, Colombia

    Also written Zuger, Žuger

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Zuger, Zűger

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Zuger

  • Turkish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zuger

12 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

196019802000Beat Züger, b. 1961Daniel Züger, b. 1979Simon Züger, b. 1981Cornel Züger, b. 1981Joanne Zuger, b. 2000

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 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Züger
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242.5K#356
LI LiechtensteinStatistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)202014—

Reference works 2

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

In which country does Züger have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Züger in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zuger.
Where is Züger most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Züger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Züger?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,478 people named Züger in 2024, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Züger compared with other names?
In Liechtenstein, Züger is the 115th most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Züger” — the 115th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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