Zürcher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zurich
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/t͡sʏʁçɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zürcher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 146K
- USUnited States1 in 248K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zürcher itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
7,618 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zurcher in US United States, FR France, TH Thailand and 1 more and Zuercher in CY Cyprus.
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
(measured from records)Zurich
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zürcher 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #59 | 7,618 | 1 in 1.1K | 7.6K | Zürcher | 59 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Zurcher | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,343 | 1 in 248K | 1.3K | Zurcher | 220 |
| FR France | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 146K | 51 | Zurcher | 139 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Zürcher | 35 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Zurcher | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | Zürcher | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Zuercher | 4 |
7,618 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Zürcher 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 German, someone from Zürich (male or unspecified)
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)- Antonie Frederik Zürcherb. 1825NLDutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and art teacher (1825-1876)
- Josephina Therese Zürcherb. 1866CHSwiss medic (1866–1932)
- Peter Zürcherb. 1914CHSwiss businessman
- Erik Zürcherb. 1928NLDutch academic and sinologist (1928–2008)
- Erik-Jan Zürcherb. 1953NLDutch historian and university professor
- Christoph Zürcherb. 1967CHProfessor of political science
- Felicitas Zürcherb. 1973CHSwiss playwright
- Ramon Zürcherb. 1982CHSwiss film director
- Silvan Zürcherb. 1982CHSwiss film producer, director and screenwriter
- Ramon Zürcherb. 1991CHSwiss skier
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7.6K | #48 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Zürcher mean, and where does it come from?
- Zurich Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Zürcher?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡sʏʁçɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Zürcher have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Zürcher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zürcher.
- Where is Zürcher most common?
- Zürcher is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zürcher?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 7,618 people named Zürcher in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Zürcher compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Zürcher is the 59th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%BCrcherThe 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, “Zürcher” — the 59th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.