Zemla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bread roll, wheat bread (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈzɛm.la/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Zemla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 291 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- SKSlovakia1 in 29K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 48K
- PLPoland1 in 336K
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)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
291 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zemla
- Polish:/ˈzɛm.la/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bread roll, wheat bread
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zemla is found
(measured from records)Zemla 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.
291 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)- Günter Zemlab. 1921DEGerman politician
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zemla mean, and where does it come from?
- bread roll, wheat bread Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zemla?
- In Polish /ˈzɛm.la/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zemla?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 291 people named Zemla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zemla. After it come Czechia, Germany, Slovakia and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zemla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zemla is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zemla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Zemla in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/zemlaThe 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, “Zemla” — ranked 67747th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.