Zins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: interest (A Frequency Dictionary of German)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈt͡sɪns/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Zins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 689 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 483K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 5.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)
- Record sources
- 1 (measured from records)
- 1 in 483K (inferred from the name graph)
689 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zins
- German:/ˈt͡sɪns/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)interest
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zins is found
(measured from records)Zins 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 | 689 | 1 in 483K | 976 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | 1 |
689 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Zins is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, rent/feudal due; also from Tuesday-name Ziestac
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In yol, plural of zin (“sun”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, genitive singular of zin
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)- Lucien Zinsb. 1922FRFrench swimmer (1922-2002)
- Henryk Zinsb. 1922PLPolish historian
- Jaffa Zinsb. 1928ILIsraeli writer (1928–2019)
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zins mean, and where does it come from?
- interest Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Zins?
- In German /ˈt͡sɪns/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zins?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 689 people named Zins, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Poland, Belgium and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zins most common?
- Zins is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 483 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 689 people named Zins in 2010, about 1 in 483 thousand 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/zinsThe 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, “Zins” — ranked 24873rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.