Zorn
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a bad-tempered person, from MHG zorn ‘anger’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈzɔɹn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 73K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 8K
- NLNetherlands1 in 68K
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 Zorn 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)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,531 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zoern in ML Mali.
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 a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a bad-tempered person, from MHG zorn ‘anger’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Zorn is read(measured from records)
Zorn is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
From a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a bad-tempered person, from MHG zorn ‘anger’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German19%
byname from mhd. zornic 'angry' or from place names
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from an abstract nickname meaning 'anger'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from a nickname or short form; base for Zürni
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
anger, wrath
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
Persönliches Merkmal: zu mhd. zorn 'Zorn, Streit' bzw. zorn(e) 'zornig'; auch zu zürner/zorner 'zornmütig'. Bearer count: 2959.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zorn 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 | 4,531 | 1 in 73K | 4.5K | Zorn | 183 |
| AR Argentina | 279 | 1 in 163K | 279 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 264 | 1 in 8K | 264 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 255 | 1 in 68K | 255 | Zorn | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 191 | 1 in 1.1M | 191 | — | — |
| ML Mali | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Zoern | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 102 | 1 in 82K | 102 | Zorn | 13 |
4,531 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johannes Zornb. 1739DEGerman botanist (1739-1799)
- Anders Leonard Zornb. 1860SESwedish painter and engraver (1860-1920)
- Emma Zornb. 1860SE(1860-1942)
- Hans Zornb. 1891DEGerman general (1891-1943)
- Max Zornb. 1906DEGerman mathematician (1906–1993)
- Werner Zornb. 1942DEGerman computer scientist
- John Zornb. 1953USAmerican composer, saxophonist and bandleader
- Eric Zornb. 1958USAmerican journalist
- Eberhard Zornb. 1960DEGerman military officer, Chief of Defense – Germany (born 1960)
- Trischa Zornb. 1964USAmerican Paralympic swimmer
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,353 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #7,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,558 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 279 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 264 | #1,547 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 255 | #8,138 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 191 | #38,139 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 102 | #10,879 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Zorn mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a bad-tempered person, from MHG zorn ‘anger’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Zorn?
- In the etymology graph, Tear is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zorn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzɔɹn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zorn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Zorn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zorn.
- Where is Zorn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zorn is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 8.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zorn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,531 people named Zorn in 2010, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zornThe 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, “Zorn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.