Zander

Zander is the 7,555th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,239 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 70,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,239
Rank: 7,555th
How common: 1 in 70,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Zander described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Zander

Friedrich Zander (1887–1933)Russian and Soviet engineer, rocket designer
Frank Zander (born 1942)German singer and actor
Thomas Zander (born 1967)German sport wrestler
Wilhelm Zander (1911–1974)SS officer
Robert Zander (1895–1966)Swedish association football player
Erich Zander (1905–1991)German hockey player
John Zander (1890–1967)Swedish middle distance runner
Dietrich Zander (born 1951)East German rower

People named Zander with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Zander

Zane

Also a first name

Zander has been given to 28,786 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.