Zucker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. 'robber'; 2. from the common noun 'sugar'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈzəkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zucker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 87K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
3,813 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. 'robber'; 2. from the common noun 'sugar'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zucker 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 | 3,813 | 1 in 87K | 3.8K | Zucker | 347 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Zucker | 102 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Zucker | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 150 | Zucker | 74 |
| MA Morocco | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Zucker | 7 |
| IL Israel | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Zucker | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Zucker | 3 |
3,813 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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Zucker is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, sugar
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, from a taste nickname; 'sugar'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 Zuckerb. 1888DEGerman American architect (1888–1971)
- Charlotte Zuckerb. 1921USAmerican actress (1921–2007)
- Jack Elliottb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican television and film composer, conductor, music arranger, and television producer (1927-2001)
- David Zuckerb. 1947USAmerican film director, screenwriter, producer
- David Zuckerb. 1948ILIsraeli peace activist and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Ratz, Meretz and as an independent between 1986 and 1999
- Jerry Zuckerb. 1950USAmerican director and producer
- Kenneth Zuckerb. 1950USAmerican sexologist
- Jeff Zuckerb. 1965USAmerican Businessman
- Arianne Zuckerb. 1974USAmerican actress and model
- Jeremy Zuckerb. 1996USAmerican singer-songwriter
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 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #8,011 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,626 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,686 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 150 | #25,654 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Zucker mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. 'robber'; 2. from the common noun 'sugar' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Zucker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzəkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zucker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Zucker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zucker.
- How common is the name Zucker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,813 people named Zucker in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zuckerThe 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, “Zucker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.