Žust

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia≈1 in 43K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M

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.

Switzerland (measured from records)

750 people, 2024

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zust in CH Switzerland, US United States.

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.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Žust 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 Žust is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland7501 in 11K750Zust1
US United States1731 in 1.9M173Zust3
SI Slovenia≈49 est.≈1 in 43K—Žust5
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——

750 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling züst. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Zust, Zuest, Züst, Züest, Zueest

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Züst, Zust

1 further group 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 2 sources across 0 countries.

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

In which country does Žust have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 750 people named Žust, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zust.
Where is Žust most common?
Žust is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Žust?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 750 people named Žust in 2024, about 1 in 11 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, “Žust”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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