Ziemer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a nickname or byname; exact etymology unclear in this excerpt (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Ziemer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,322 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 143K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 324K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)
2,322 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a nickname or byname; exact etymology unclear in this excerpt
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ziemer is found
(measured from records)Ziemer 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 | 2,322 | 1 in 143K | 2.3K | Ziemer | 151 |
| BR Brazil | 381 | 1 in 556K | 381 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 118 | 1 in 324K | 69 | Ziemer | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | Ziemer | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | Ziemer | 7 |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | 3 |
2,322 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Ziemer is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, wohl zu germ. Rufname Siegmar; evtl. auch zu mhd. Ziemer 'Krammetsvogel' für Vogelsteller; S/Z-Variation, ie/y- und t-Varianten
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronym mit S/Z-Variation im Anlaut; 1304 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, from Zeimer and SIEG (Sigimar)
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)- Hans Ziemerb. 1920DEGerman politician (1920-1987)
- Elisabeth Ziemerb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Marcel Ziemerb. 1985DEGerman footballer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ziemer mean, and where does it come from?
- from a nickname or byname; exact etymology unclear in this excerpt Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ziemer?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Ziemer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziemer. After it come Brazil, Poland, Switzerland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ziemer most common?
- Ziemer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 143 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ziemer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,322 people named Ziemer in 2010, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ziemerThe 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, “Ziemer” — ranked 12539th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.