Zankl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu mhd. zanken, zenken 'zanken, streiten' für einen streitsüchtigen Menschen; 763 Belege
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/tsaŋkl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zankl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 23K
- BZBelize≈1 in 178K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Übername zu mhd. zanken, zenken 'zanken, streiten' für einen streitsüchtigen Menschen; 763 Belege.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zankl 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 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Zankl | 71 |
| AT Austria | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Zankl | 42 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Zankl | 68 |
| PL Poland | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Zankl | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Zankl | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Zankl | 9 |
| BZ Belize | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Zankl | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)- Marie Richterb. 1875HUnot in their usual namesinger and voice teacher
- Karl Zanklb. 1900ATAustrian association football player
- Hubert Zanklb. 1911ATAustrian politician (1911-1989)
- Hans Ludwig Zanklb. 1911DEGerman journalist (1911-1977)
- Rudolf Zanklb. 1920DEGerman politician
- Franz Rudolf Zanklb. 1937DEGerman regional historian
- Heinrich Zanklb. 1941DEGerman university teacher
- Horst Zanklb. 1944ATAustrian theatre director (1944–1987)
- Albert Zanklb. 1954DEGerman politician
- Peter Zanklb. 1961DEGerman ice hockey player
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Zankl?
- A machine transcription gives /tsaŋkl/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Zankl mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername zu mhd. zanken, zenken 'zanken, streiten' für einen streitsüchtigen Menschen; 763 Belege.
- In which country does Zankl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Zankl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zankl.
- How common is the name Zankl?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 16 people named Zankl in 2024, about 1 in 525 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/zanklThe 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, “Zankl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.