Zieba
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʑɛba/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Zieba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Polish Zięba.
- PLPoland1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 31K
- FIFinland1 in 98K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
23,395 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zięba in PL Poland, FR France.
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)From Polish Zięba.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zieba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #95 | 23,395 | 1 in 1.6K | 12K | Zięba | 96 |
| US United States | — | 781 | 1 in 426K | 781 | Zieba | 109 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 46 | Zięba | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 287K | 78 | Zieba | 48 |
| NO Norway | — | 176 | 1 in 31K | 176 | Zieba | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 57 | 1 in 98K | 57 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 44 | 1 in 133K | 44 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Zieba | 9 |
23,395 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 781 | #30,043 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 728 | #33,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 663 | #32,652 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 176 | #8,931 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 78 | #38,693 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 58 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57 | #20,463 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 45 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- 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 Zieba mean, and where does it come from?
- From Polish Zięba. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zieba?
- In Polish /ʑɛba/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Zieba have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Zieba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zięba.
- Where is Zieba most common?
- Zieba is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zieba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23,395 people named Zieba in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Zieba compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zieba is the 95th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ziebaThe 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, “Zieba” — the 95th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.