Zwicky
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zwicky is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CHSwitzerland
- DKDenmark
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Othmar Zwickyb. 1706CH(1706-1755)
- Dietrich Zwickyb. 1784CH(1784-1845)
- Nelly Zwickyb. 1872CHSwiss writer (1872-1946)
- Fritz Zwickyb. 1898CHSwiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898–1974)
- Fay Zwickyb. 1933AUAustralian poet, academic
- Arnold Zwickyb. 1940USAmerican linguist
- Conrad Zwickyb. 1946CHSwiss organist and musician
- Jan Zwickyb. 1955CACanadian philosopher
- Karl Zwickyb. 1956AUAustralian film director
- Dieter Zwickyb. 1957CHSwiss writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 767 | #1,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 353 | #54,643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 342 | #63,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 331 | #60,790 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 54 | #9,848 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #212,418 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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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, “Zwicky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.