Zwiebel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the word for "onion"; many diminutive/variant forms
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zwiebel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 237K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 422K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
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 Zwiebel 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 237K (inferred from the name graph)
789 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from the word for "onion"; many diminutive/variant forms
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zwiebel 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 | 789 | 1 in 422K | 795 | Zwiebel | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 73 | 1 in 237K | 73 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Zwiebel | 11 |
789 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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Zwiebel 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 German, onion (typically Allium cepa, the plant or its bulb)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from a vegetable nickname; 'onion'
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)
- Helene Zwiebel-Wallachb. 1904DEHolocaust victim (born 1904)
- Alfred Zwiebelb. 1914DEAmerican painter (1914-2005)
- Christian Zwiebelb. 1957FRFrench local politician
- Jeffrey Zwiebelb. 1965USAmerican economist
- Laurence ZwiebelUSresearcher and Professor of Biological Sciences
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 795 | #31,239 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 789 | #29,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 711 | #30,900 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 73 | #24,064 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #82,169 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #301,183 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Zwiebel mean, and where does it come from?
- from the word for "onion"; many diminutive/variant forms Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Zwiebel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 789 people named Zwiebel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zwiebel.
- Where is Zwiebel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zwiebel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 237 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zwiebel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 789 people named Zwiebel in 2010, about 1 in 422 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zwiebelThe 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, “Zwiebel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.