Wöllner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. woller/wollere 'Wollschläger, -weber'; 503+35 Belege
/vœlnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wöllner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 570K
- ATAustria≈1 in 32K
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 Wöllner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wollner in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 2 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)
Berufsname zu mhd. woller/wollere 'Wollschläger, -weber'; 503+35 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wöllner 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 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Wollner | 74 |
| US United States | 584 | 1 in 570K | 605 | Wollner | 167 |
| BR Brazil | 312as Woellner | 1 in 679K | 312 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Wollner | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 670K | 19 | Wollner | 29 |
| CZ Czechia | 63 | 1 in 170K | 63 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | Wollner | 10 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
- Heinz Wöllnerb. 1913DEGerman athletics competitor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #160,741 |
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
- How do you pronounce Wöllner?
- A machine transcription gives /vœlnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Wöllner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. woller/wollere 'Wollschläger, -weber'; 503+35 Belege.
- In which country does Wöllner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Wöllner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wollner.
- How common is the name Wöllner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 584 people named Wöllner in 2010, about 1 in 570 thousand residents.
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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%B6llnerThe 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, “Wöllner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.