Żuber
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈʐu.bɛr/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Żuber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German zuber, zūber, from Old High German zubar, zwibar.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 14K
- DEGermany≈1 in 20K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zuber in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 more.
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)- Middle High Germanzuber(measured from records)
- Old High Germanzubar(measured from records)
From Middle High German zuber, zūber, from Old High German zubar, zwibar.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Żuber 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Zuber | 116 |
| US United States | — | 3,950 | 1 in 84K | 4K | Zuber | 303 |
| CH Switzerland | #314 | 2,482 | 1 in 3.4K | 2.5K | Zuber | 61 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,722 | 1 in 22K | 881 | Zuber | 65 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Zuber | 24 |
| HR Croatia | — | 304 | 1 in 14K | 304 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 2 | Zuber | 21 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Żuber is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In csb, European bison
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Feliks Żuberb. 1905PLPolish athlete
- Ryszard Żuberb. 1950PLPolish economist
- Adam Żuberb. 1979PLPolish cyclist
- Zbigniew ŻuberPLPolish pediatric rheumatologist
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 845 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 845 | #3,758 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 814 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 814 | #3,813 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Żuber mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German zuber, zūber, from Old High German zubar, zwibar. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Żuber?
- In Polish /ˈʐu.bɛr/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Żuber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Żuber in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zuber.
- Where is Żuber most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Żuber is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Żuber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,950 people named Żuber in 2010, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Żuber compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Żuber is the 314th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BCuberThe 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, “Żuber” — the 314th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.