Zupan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈzupən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zupan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *županъ.
- USUnited States1 in 280K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 689
- HRCroatia1 in 2.7K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 689 (inferred from the name graph)
3,050 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *županъ.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zupan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #407 | 3,050 | 1 in 689 | 3K | Zupan | 24 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,574 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.6K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,190 | 1 in 280K | 1.2K | Zupan | 201 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 702K | — | Zupan | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Zupan | 57 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Zupan | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | Zupan | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Zupan | 1 |
3,050 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Zupan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The leader of a župa, or administrative unit, among various South Slavic peoples.
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)
- Jože Zupanb. 1909SISlovene (Yugoslavian) actor (1909-1980)
- Vitomil Zupanb. 1914SISlovenian writer (1914–1987)
- Jure Zupanb. 1943SISlovene chemist (1943- )
- Dim Zupanb. 1946SIJuvenile fiction writer
- Zdravko Zupanb. 1950RSComics artist and historian (1950-2015)
- Uroš Zupanb. 1963SIPoet and translator
- Branko Zupanb. 1964SISlovenian footballer and manager
- Matjaž Zupanb. 1968SISlovenian ski jumper
- Mark Zupanb. 1975USAmerican wheelchair rugby player
- Miha Zupanb. 1982SIDeaf Slovenian basketball player (born 1982)
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 3K | #16 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #22,865 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 43 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 38 | #15,778 |
| 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 Zupan mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *županъ. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zupan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzupən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zupan have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Zupan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zupan.
- Where is Zupan most common?
- Zupan is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 689 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zupan?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 3,050 people named Zupan, about 1 in 689 residents.
- How common is Zupan compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Zupan is the 407th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zupanThe 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, “Zupan” — the 407th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.