Zèl

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zèl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 75K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 342K
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

112 people, 2026

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zel in MX Mexico, BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zèl 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.

Where Zèl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1121 in 342K58——
SI Slovenia281 in 75K28—1
BR Brazil231 in 9.2M23Zel20
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3——
MX Mexico———Zel22

112 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zèl is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Zel, Zël, Zél

  • English surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zel, Žél, Zęl, Zël, Zél

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zèl 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 Haitian Creole, wing (of a bird, insect, aircraft)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zèl under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Zèl have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 112 people named Zèl, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Zèl most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zèl is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zèl?
In Poland, the national register counted 112 people named Zèl in 2026, about 1 in 342 thousand residents.

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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, “Zèl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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