The Zelazny surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 586 people carried this name — #37,899 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted. That is up 6% from 554 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Zelazny surname
Borrowed from Polish Żelazny, from żelazny (“iron”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Zelazny» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
2,275 people named Zelazny have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 2,555 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Lesser Poland.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 53 people named Zelazny.
21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
20 people named Zelazny is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Zelazny,
with a public archive behind them.
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Roger Zelazny 1937–1995 · novelist
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Zelazny.
- Zehr 3,015 · U.S. census
- Zehren 387 · U.S. census
- Zeidler 819 · U.S. census
- Zeiger 1,670 · U.S. census
- Zeimet 543 · U.S. census
- Zeitoun 193 · U.S. census
- Zelek 462 · U.S. census
- Zell 3,049 · U.S. census
- Zeller 10,595 · U.S. census
- Zellner 3,417 · U.S. census
- Zeman 3,843 · U.S. census
- Zen 264 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Zelazny is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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