Zimerman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θjmeɾman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zimerman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 4Kas Zimmerman(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 5.3Kas צימרמן
- ARArgentina1 in 26Kas Zimmermann
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zimerman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 643K (inferred from the name graph)
83,265 named Zimmerman, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled צימרמן in IL Israel, PL Poland, Zimmerman in US United States and Zimmermann in CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zimerman 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 | — | 83,265as Zimmerman | 1 in 4K | 83K | Zimmerman | 128 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 13,808as Zimmermann | 1 in 609 | 14K | Zimmermann | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,050as Zimmermann | 1 in 26K | 8.1K | Zimerman | 58 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,783as Cymerman | 1 in 21K | 906 | צימרמן | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,739as Zimmermann | 1 in 26K | 1.7K | Zimerman | 47 |
| IL Israel | #525 | 1,639as צימרמן | 1 in 5.3K | 1.6K | צימרמן | 38 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 722as Cimerman | 1 in 2.9K | 722 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 594as Zimmermann | 1 in 9.2K | 594 | — | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 643K | — | Zimerman | 4 |
83,265 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Morris Zimermanb. 1911ZASouth African rugby union footballer (1911–1992)
- Abraham Hirsz Zimermanb. 1928BRBrazilian physicist, researcher and university professor
- Krystian Zimermanb. 1956PLPolish classical pianist
- Tal Zimermanactor
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,686 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 346 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 213 | #92,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 203 | #90,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 191 | #89,895 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 140 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 140 | #22,377 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 130 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 130 | #24,298 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 17 | #14,830 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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 Zimerman?
- A machine transcription gives /θjmeɾman/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zimerman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 83 thousand people named Zimmerman, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zimerman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 83,265 people named Zimmerman in 2010, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Zimerman compared with other names?
- In Israel, Zimerman is the 525th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zimerman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zimermanThe 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, “Zimerman” — the 525th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.