Zelt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zelt is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tent
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Zelt is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, tent, marquee
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a hamlet in Oisterwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, to become green
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, būt tādam, kas veidojas, labi attīstās, spēcīgi, spilgti izpaužas (parasti par parādībām sabiedrībā, arī par sabiedrību)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Augt, zaļot (par augiem, to kopumu)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Franziska Zeltb. 1872PLHolocaust victim (born 1872)
- Piotr Zeltb. 1968PLPolish actor
- Sina Zeltb. 1992DEGerman association football player
- Anja ZeltDEGerman association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 256 | #80,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 249 | #77,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 243 | #74,164 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #246,774 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #300,200 |
| 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 Zelt mean, and where does it come from?
- tent Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- What are other forms of the name Zelt?
- In the etymology graph, Tilt is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zelt have the most bearers?
- Zelt is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeltThe 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, “Zelt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.