Wève

surname · Latin script

Wève is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 353K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

49 people, 2007

Record sources
7 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 353K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Weve in BE Belgium, FR France.

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 across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Wève 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 Wève is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands491 in 353K49—2
BE Belgium51 in 2.3M5Weve7
FR France———Weve5
CL Chile——1——
US United States——listed—4

49 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Wève is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Nigeria, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Weve

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Wève have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 49 people named Wève, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Wève most common?
Wève is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 353 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Wève?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 49 people named Wève in 2007, about 1 in 353 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, “Wève”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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