Zeldin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Zelde’, from a Yiddish female personal name based on MHG scelde ‘fortunate, blessed’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/zʲelʲdʲin/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from зельдин
Zeldin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia≈1 in 360K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 420Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 823K
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 Zeldin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
404 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled זלדין in IL Israel, BY Belarus and Зельдин in RU Russia.
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)‘son of Zelde’, from a Yiddish female personal name based on MHG scelde ‘fortunate, blessed’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zeldin 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 | 404 | 1 in 823K | 404 | Zeldin | 173 |
| IL Israel | 208as זלדין | 1 in 42K | 208 | זלדין | 17 |
| RU Russia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Зельдин | 76 |
| CA Canada | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Zeldin | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 7 | Zeldin | 22 |
| BY Belarus | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 326K | — | זלדין | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Zeldin | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Zeldin | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 364K | 21 | — | — |
404 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SURS — resident population given 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)Zeldin 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, A surname from Yiddish, of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.
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)- Morris Zeldinb. 1891US(1891-1976)
- Vladimir Zeldinb. 1915RUSoviet and Russian actor (1915–2016)
- Isaiah Zeldinb. 1921USAmerican Reform rabbi
- Mary-Barbara Zeldinb. 1922USphilosopher, religious studies scholar, university teacher (1922-1981)
- Theodore Zeldinb. 1933GBEnglish academic
- Lee Zeldinb. 1980USAmerican politician (born 1980)
- Alexander Zeldinb. 1985GBBritish theatre director
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 404 | #51,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 396 | #55,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 382 | #51,233 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Zeldin mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Zelde’, from a Yiddish female personal name based on MHG scelde ‘fortunate, blessed’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Zeldin?
- In Russian /zʲelʲdʲin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Zeldin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 404 people named Zeldin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeldin.
- How common is the name Zeldin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 404 people named Zeldin in 2010, about 1 in 823 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/zeldinThe 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, “Zeldin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.