Zareba

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zareba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 202K
  • SESweden1 in 213K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

10,840 people, 2026

Sources
65 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zareba 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 Zareba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland10,8401 in 3.5K5.4KZareba2
US United States1281 in 2.6M128Zareba65
SE Sweden481 in 213K48Zareba4
NO Norway271 in 202K27—1
BR Brazil211 in 10M21—1
FI Finland171 in 328K17—1
DK Denmark151 in 391K15——

10,840 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling zaręba. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Zareba is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Zaręba, Zaréba

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zaręba

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Zaręba

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Zaręba

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Zaręba

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zarȩba, Zaręba

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zaręba

20 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)

Zareba 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 English, Alternative spelling of zeriba.

    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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Zareba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010128#132,206
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020117#144,270
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—48#12,943
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—27#37,009
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—21#188,821
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—17#42,717
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#29,232
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#124,428
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#405,798
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 are other forms of the name Zareba?
In the etymology graph, Zeriba is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Zareba have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Zareba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zareba.
Where is Zareba most common?
Zareba is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zareba?
In Poland, the national register counted 10,840 people named Zareba in 2026, about 1 in 3.5 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, “Zareba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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