Wærn
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Wærn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 14Kas Wärn(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 71Kas Warn
- USUnited States1 in 320Kas Warn
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wærn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 683K (inferred from the name graph)
1,039 named Warn, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Warn in US United States, AU Australia, FI Finland and 1 more and Waern in SE Sweden, ES Spain, BJ Benin and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wærn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,039as Warn | 1 in 320K | 1.2K | Warn | 233 |
| ML Mali | #568 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Warn | 1 |
| SE Sweden | #815 | 737as Wärn | 1 in 14K | 737 | Waern | 36 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Waern | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Waern | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Warn | 73 |
| FI Finland | — | 187as Wärn | 1 in 30K | 187 | Warn | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | Waern | 3 |
1,039 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Martha Wærnb. 1741NOwealthy Danish philanthropist (1741-1812)
- Jonas Wærnb. 1799SESwedish politician
- Carl Fredrik Wærnb. 1819SESwedish politician
- Cecilia Wærnb. 1853SESwedish journalist and writer
- Ingeborg Wærn Buggeb. 1899SESwedish architect (1899-1991)
- Mats Waernb. 1912not in their usual namebotanist
- Jonas Wærnb. 1915SESwedish military commander
- Inge Wærnb. 1918SESwedish actress
- Yvonne Wærnb. 1935SESwedish writer
- Ylva Cecilia WaernSEnot in their usual nameactress
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,946 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,293 |
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
- In which country does Wærn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Warn, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wærn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wærn is densest in Norway — about 1 in 683 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wærn?
- In Norway, the national register counted 8 people named Wærn, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
- How common is Wærn compared with other names?
- In Mali, Wærn is the 568th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wærn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%A6rnThe 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, “Wærn” — the 568th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.