Wânder

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wânder is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, c.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 21K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 82K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

10,120 people, 2022

Sources
241 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wander in BR Brazil, DO Dominican Republic, US United States and 3 more.

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(measured from records)

Derivation of Wânder: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Wânder
  1. Middle Englishwandren(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishwandrian“to wander“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wandarōn“to wander”(measured from records)
  4. Proto-West Germanic root*wandōn“to turn“to turn, change”(measured from records)

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

Sources 2

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wânder 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 Wânder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—10,1201 in 21K10KWander137
DO Dominican Republic#145≈4,800 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Wander39
NL Netherlands—7351 in 24K735Wander33
US United States—5251 in 634K1.1KWander241
PE Peru—≈390 est.≈1 in 82K—Wander24
CR Costa Rica—561 in 91K56Wander10

10,120 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Wânder under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Wânder mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, c… Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary.
Is Wânder a male or female name?
Wânder is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Wânder have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Wânder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wander.
How common is the name Wânder?
In Brazil, the national register counted 10,120 people named Wânder in 2022, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Wânder compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Wânder is the 145th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.

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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, “Wânder” — the 145th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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