Wägner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mostly same as Wagner; also from Wag/Wang
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Wägner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 437(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 543
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #518 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 567 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 437 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wagner in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 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)mostly same as Wagner; also from Wag/Wang
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wägner 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #8 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 437 | listed | Wagner | 293 |
| US United States | #156 | 155,795 | 1 in 2.1K | 156K | Wagner | 567 |
| GB United Kingdom | #334 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Wagner | 176 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 125K | — | 9 |
| CA Canada | #165 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Wagner | 215 |
| AT Austria | #6 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 543 | — | Wagner | 157 |
| CH Switzerland | #104 | 5,804 | 1 in 1.4K | 5.8K | Wagner | 116 |
| IE Ireland | #215 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Wagner | 26 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Wägner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, umgelautete Form zu mhd. wagener; v.a. am Südrand des Nd. und im hd. Raum. 301 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, meist Wagner (s. Wagner), doch, auch zu Wag und Wang
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Johann Wilhelm Ernst Wägnerb. 1800DEGerman theologian
- Elin Wägnerb. 1882SESwedish writer, journalist and Suffragette (1882–1949)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wägner mean, and where does it come from?
- mostly same as Wagner; also from Wag/Wang Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Wägner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 183 thousand people named Wägner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wagner.
- How common is the name Wägner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 155,795 people named Wägner in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Wägner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wägner is the 8th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%A4gnerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Wägner” — the 8th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.