The Zeiger surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,670 people carried this name — #17,014 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 175,400 people counted. That is up 6% from 1,571 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Zeiger surname
From Middle High German zeiger, from Old High German zeigāri. By surface analysis, zeigen (“to show, point”) + -er. In the computing sense, a semantic loan from English pointer.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Zeiger» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 170 people named Zeiger.
9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
28 people named Zeiger live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Zeiger in American newspapers,
1868–1912.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Who carried it
People named Zeiger,
with a public archive behind them.
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Juhan Zeiger 1897–1969 · composer -
Augustin Zeiger 1805–1868 · organ builder
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Leo Zeiger 1876–1940
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Theodor Zeiger 1877– · teacher at a Gymnasium
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Paul Zeiger 1881–1959 · association football player
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Karl Zeiger 1895–1959 · physician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Zeiger.
- Zeh 1,540 · U.S. census
- Zehler 243 · U.S. census
- Zehner 2,350 · U.S. census
- Zehr 3,015 · U.S. census
- Zehren 387 · U.S. census
- Zeidler 819 · U.S. census
- Zeimet 543 · U.S. census
- Zeitoun 193 · U.S. census
- Zelazny 586 · U.S. census
- Zelek 462 · U.S. census
- Zell 3,049 · U.S. census
- Zeller 10,595 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Zeiger is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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