Zeleny
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɪˈɫini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zeleny is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Zelený.
- USUnited States1 in 584K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 6.2K
- SKSlovakia1 in 43K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,729 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Czech Zelený.
Sources 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zeleny 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 1,729 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 570 | 1 in 584K | 570 | Zeleny | 161 |
| SK Slovakia | 128 | 1 in 43K | 128 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | Zeleny | 4 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
1,729 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Zeleny 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 dsb, green
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)
- Walter Zelenyb. 1900ATAustrian writer and librarian
- Lawrence Zelenyb. 1904USAmerican biochemist
- Jeff Zelenyb. 1973USAmerican TV journalist (born 1973)
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 570 | #38,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 536 | #43,428 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 533 | #38,942 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #139,062 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #406,338 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zeleny mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Zelený. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zeleny?
- A machine transcription gives /zɪˈɫini/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zeleny have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Zeleny, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zeleny most common?
- Zeleny is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zeleny?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,729 people named Zeleny, about 1 in 6.2 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/zelenyThe 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, “Zeleny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.