Ziesche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu poln. czyż, niedersorb
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tsiʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ziesche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 437K
- PLPoland1 in 2.6M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Übername zu poln. czyż, niedersorb. cyž, obersorb. čižik 'Zeisig' für einen munteren, fröhlichen Menschen; Dentale: Affrikaten/Frikative; 755 Bearer.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ziesche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Ziesche | 85 |
| US United States | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | listed | Ziesche | 51 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Ziesche | 11 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 8 | Ziesche | 1 |
| ES Spain | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Ziesche | 5 |
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: the dfa-band-2 register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ziesche 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 German, Schreibvariante im anlautenden Tsch/Tzsch/Zsch/Z-Wechsel; 755 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Paul Ziescheb. 1933DEGerman physicist
- Hans-Günter Ziescheb. 1935DEGerman politician (1935-2012)
- Joachim Ziescheb. 1939DEEast German ice hockey player
- Peter Ziescheb. 1955DEGerman cinematographer
- Cooky Ziescheb. 1960DEGerman screenwriter
- Jens Ziescheb. 1963DEGerman ice hockey player and doctor
- Karola Subeb. 1964DEnot in their usual nameEast German gymnast
- Steffen Ziescheb. 1972DEGerman ice hockey player
- Julia Ziescheb. 1985DEGerman film director, screenwriter and actress
- Markus Ziescheb. 1987DEGerman ice hockey 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #159,256 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #173,778 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Ziesche?
- A machine transcription gives /tsiʃə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Ziesche mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername zu poln. czyż, niedersorb.
- In which country does Ziesche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Ziesche in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziesche.
- How common is the name Ziesche?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15 people named Ziesche in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 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/ziescheThe 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, “Ziesche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.