Ziffer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: digit, numeral
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈt͡sɪfɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Ziffer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 2.1M
- ARArgentina1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ziffer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
183 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled ציפר in IL Israel, US United States.
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)digit, numeral
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ziffer is found
(measured from records)Ziffer 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 | 183 | 1 in 1.8M | 183 | ציפר | 14 |
| IL Israel | 116as ציפר | 1 in 75K | 116 | ציפר | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 5 | 1 in 2.1M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 2 |
183 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling ziffer. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Ziffer 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 Luxembourgish, numeral, digit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Moshe Zifferb. 1902ILIsraeli artist
- Wolfgang Zifferb. 1940DEGerman actor (1941–2022)
- Julia Zifferb. 1975DEGerman voice actress
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)11 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 Ziffer mean, and where does it come from?
- digit, numeral Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ziffer?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈt͡sɪfɐ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /θiffeɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ziffer?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 183 people named Ziffer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ציפר. After it come Israel, Argentina, Czechia and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ziffer most common?
- Ziffer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ziffer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 183 people named Ziffer in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ziffer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zifferThe 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, “Ziffer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.