Zschau
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic Rufname with stem Schau-/Schau-; see Schaue
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sʃaʊ̯/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zschau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 102K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.5M
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 150K
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
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zschàu in BE Belgium.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Germanic Rufname with stem Schau-/Schau-; see Schaue
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zschau 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 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Zschau | 62 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Zschau | 76 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Zschau | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | Zschàu | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Andreas Zschaub. 1666DEGerman printer and publisher
- Ernst Fürchtegott Zschaub. 1823DEentomologist
- Ed Zschaub. 1940USAmerican management consultant and politician
- Marilyn Zschaub. 1944USAmerican operatic soprano
- Jochen Zschaub. 1944DEGerman natural hazards researcher
- Josef Zschaub. 1963DEGerman association football player
- Katrin Zschaub. 1976DEGerman politician
- Carolin Zschaub. 2000DEGerman association football 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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #59,474 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #33,109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Zschau mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic Rufname with stem Schau-/Schau-; see Schaue Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Zschau?
- A machine transcription gives /sʃaʊ̯/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Zschau have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 789 people named Zschau in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zschau.
- How common is the name Zschau?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 14 people named Zschau in 2008, about 1 in 837 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/zschauThe 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, “Zschau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.