Zvejnieks
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fisherman (man whose work is fishing)
Zvejnieks is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 22Mas Звейниекс(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 41Mas Звейниекс
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zvejnieks 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22M (inferred from the name graph)
≈6 named Звейниекс, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Звейниекс
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Звейниекс in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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)
fisherman (man whose work is fishing)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zvejnieks 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Звейниекс | 21 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 41M | — | Звейниекс | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | — | — | Zvejnieks | 7 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Zvejnieks is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Carnikavas pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Gauja" daļa, kas agrāk bija atsevišķs vasarnīcu ciems
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, cilvēks, kas nodarbojas ar zveju; zvejas speciālists
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Indriķis Zvejnieksb. 1897LVLatvian revolutionary (1897–1919)
- Alberts Zvejnieksb. 1902LVLatvian wrestler (1902-1987)
- Miks Zvejnieksb. 1995LVLatvian male alpine skier
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Zvejnieks mean, and where does it come from?
- fisherman (man whose work is fishing) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zvejnieks have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6 people named Звейниекс in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zvejnieks?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6 people in Russia have Звейниекс as their first surname, about 1 in 22 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zvejnieksThe 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, “Zvejnieks”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.