Wèld
surname · Latin script
Wèld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz.
- NONorway1 in 114K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 140Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 190Kfew records
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, 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 Weld in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada 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)- Middle Englishwelde(measured from records)
- Old English*weald(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*waizdaz(measured from records)
From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad. Dutch wouw is derived from the same basic form with -l-.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wèld 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Weld | 10 |
| US United States | 1,218 | 1 in 273K | 1.3K | Weld | 259 |
| MA Morocco | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Weld | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 194K | 97 | Weld | 65 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Weld | 46 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Weld | 22 |
| NO Norway | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | 3 |
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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wèld mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wèld have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Wèld in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weld.
- How common is the name Wèld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,218 people named Wèld in 2010, about 1 in 273 thousand residents.
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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, “Wèld”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.