Zühlke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymische Form auf -ke nach l; zu slawischen Rufnamen wie Sulimir, mit Erstglied urslaw
/syːlkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zühlke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 288Kas Zuehlke
- ZMZambia≈1 in 6.1K
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 Zühlke 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.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zuehlke in US United States, IE Ireland, EG Egypt and 3 more and Zuhlke in ZM Zambia.
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)
Patronymische Form auf -ke nach l; zu slawischen Rufnamen wie Sulimir, mit Erstglied urslaw. *sulijb 'besser, stärker'. 1792 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zühlke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Zuhlke | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Zühlke | 76 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Zuehlke | 1 |
| US United States | 1,155as Zuehlke | 1 in 288K | 1.2K | Zuehlke | 196 |
| EG Egypt | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Zuehlke | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Zuehlke | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Zuehlke | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 41 | 1 in 205K | 41 | Zuehlke | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the dfa-band-3 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Paul Fritz Zühlkeb. 1877DEDr. phil. Universität Rostock 1902
- Otto Zühlkeb. 1882DEDr. phil. Universität Rostock 1903
- Ernst Zühlkeb. 1895DEGerman politician (1895-1976)
- Dietrich Zühlkeb. 1925DEGerman geographer (1925-1983)
- Hartmut Zühlkeb. 1936DEGerman biochemist and molecular biologist (1936-2019)
- Detlef Zühlkeb. 1949DEGerman engineer and professor
- Steffen Zühlkeb. 1965DEEast German rower
- Angelika Zühlkeb. 1966DEGerman swimmer
- Tim Zühlkeb. 1979DEGerman sports coach
- Zühlkeb. 1991FIFinnish singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 41 | #21,670 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Zühlke?
- A machine transcription gives /syːlkə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Zühlke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymische Form auf -ke nach l; zu slawischen Rufnamen wie Sulimir, mit Erstglied urslaw.
- In which country does Zühlke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Zühlke in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zuhlke.
- How common is the name Zühlke?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 41 people named Zühlke in 2024, about 1 in 205 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%BChlkeThe 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, “Zühlke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.