Zemke
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈzɛmk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zemke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Zemke.
- PLPoland1 in 122K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 284K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)
1,173 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from German Zemke.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zemke 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 | 1,173 | 1 in 284K | 1.2K | Zemke | 10 |
| PL Poland | 314 | 1 in 122K | 163 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 158 | 1 in 1.3M | 158 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 46M | — | Zemke | 39 |
1,173 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hubert Zemkeb. 1914USAmerican World War II officer (1914–1994)
- Ron Zemkeb. 1942born:1942|died:2004-08-17|; Zemke, Ron, 1942-; Zemke, Ron 1942-2004
- Jerzy Zemkeb. 1948PLPolish economist
- Janusz Zemkeb. 1949PLPolish politician
- Jens Zemkeb. 1966DEGerman bicycle racer
- Jake Zemkeb. 1975USAmerican motorcycle racer
- Adam Zemkeb. 1983USAmerican politician
- Jermaine Zemkeb. 2005DEGerman cyclist
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,081 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,348 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 163 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 163 | #19,917 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 158 | #44,459 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 151 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 151 | #20,869 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Zemke mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Zemke. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zemke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzɛmk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zemke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Zemke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zemke.
- Where is Zemke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zemke is densest in Poland — about 1 in 122 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zemke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,173 people named Zemke in 2010, about 1 in 284 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zemke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zemkeThe 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, “Zemke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.