Ziér
surname · Latin script
Ziér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »gorko, žestina, otrov«.
- SESweden1 in 364K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 405K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 364K (inferred from the name graph)
821 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zier in US United States.
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)»gorko, žestina, otrov«
Cited for this meaning 2
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ziér 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 | 821 | 1 in 405K | 1K | Zier | 9 |
| AR Argentina | 44 | 1 in 1M | 44 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 32 | 1 in 6.6M | 32 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 156 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
821 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Ziér mean, and where does it come from?
- »gorko, žestina, otrov« Recorded by Nordic Names and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Ziér have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 821 people named Ziér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zier.
- Where is Ziér most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ziér is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 364 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ziér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 821 people named Ziér in 2010, about 1 in 405 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ziér?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zi%C3%A9rThe 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, “Ziér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.