Zwart
surname · Latin script
Meaning: black (A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/zʋɑrt/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Zwart is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Zwart
- Dutch:/zʋɑrt/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)black
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Piet Zwartb. 1885NLDutch typography designer, architect, photographer and industrial designer (1885-1977)
- Harald Zwartb. 1965NONorwegian director
- Simon Portegies Zwartb. 1965NLDutch astronomer
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zwart mean, and where does it come from?
- black Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Zwart?
- In the etymology graph, Schwarz is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zwart?
- In Dutch /zʋɑrt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Zwart have the most bearers?
- Zwart is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Zwart”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.