Zeile
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: line
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2010
/ˈzaɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zeile is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2M (inferred from the name graph)
105 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)line
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zeile is read
(measured from records)Zeile is one spelling over 3 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.
- English61%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zeile in English.
- German21%
line
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
line, row
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Latvian8.5%
Trose
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Zeile 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 | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 112 | Zeile | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | — | — | Zeile | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Zeile | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 90 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | 2 | — | — |
105 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Zeile 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 Dutch, singular present subjunctive of zeilen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ltg, acorn
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)- Elsie May Zeileb. 1885USAmerican botanist (1885-1988)
- Valentīna Zeileb. 1938LVLatvian politician
- Todd Zeileb. 1965USAmerican baseball player
- Magnus Zeileb. 1968SESwedish tennis 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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Zeile mean, and where does it come from?
- line Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- What are other forms of the name Zeile?
- In the etymology graph, Reihe is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zeile?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzaɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zeile have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 105 people named Zeile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeile.
- Where is Zeile most common?
- Zeile is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zeile?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Zeile in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zeile?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeileThe 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, “Zeile”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.