Zucker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. 'robber'; 2. from the common noun 'sugar' (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈzʌ.kəɹ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Zucker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,813 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 24Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 53K
- USUnited States1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
3,813 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zucker
- English:/ˈzʌ.kəɹ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- German:/ˈt͡sʊkɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. 'robber'; 2. from the common noun 'sugar'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zucker is found
(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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Zucker | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 150 | Zucker | 74 |
| CA Canada | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Zucker | 67 |
| IL Israel | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Zucker | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | 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)- David Zuckerb. 1947USAmerican film director, screenwriter, producer
- Jerry Zuckerb. 1950USAmerican director and producer
- 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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈzʌ.kəɹ/ (Wiktionary); in German /ˈt͡sʊkɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zucker?
- 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. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Israel; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
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” — ranked 8011th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.