Zalud

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/zalut/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated

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Zalud is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 658 people, counted by MVČR.

  • CZCzechia1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 176K
  • HRCroatia1 in 325K

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.

Czechia (measured from records)

658 people

Record sources
135 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Zalud

  • Czech:/zalut/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Zalud is found

(measured from records)

Zalud 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.

Where Zalud is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia6581 in 16K658—2
PK Pakistan≈320 est.≈1 in 775K—Zalud1
US United States2971 in 1.1M298Zalud135
DE Germany≈92 est.≈1 in 905K—Zalud33
AT Austria≈76 est.≈1 in 121K—Zalud21
SK Slovakia311 in 176K31—1
CH Switzerland≈14 est.≈1 in 651K—Zalud4
HR Croatia131 in 325K13——

658 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Zalud is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Žalud, Žaluď

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France

    Also written Žalud

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Žalud

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Žalud

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Žalud

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Zalud 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 Russian, var of Zaliud.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, in vain

    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)

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)
FormalDear Zalud,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Zalud?
In Czech /zalut/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Zalud?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 658 people named Zalud, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, United States, Germany and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Zalud most common?
Zalud is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zalud?
In Czechia, the national register counted 658 people named Zalud, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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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, “Zalud” — ranked 1517th in Czechia (MVČR). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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