Wörner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant with ö of Werner, from a Germanic personal name; 3,654 bearers
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vœʁnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wörner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 91K
- USUnited States1 in 128Kas Woerner
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 Wörner 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
- 276 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 people, est.
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 Woerner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, JM Jamaica and 4 more and Worner in AU Australia.
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)
Variant with ö of Werner, from a Germanic personal name; 3,654 bearers. Plate shows e ~ ö vowel variation.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wörner 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 | #876 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Wörner | 104 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Woerner | 2 |
| US United States | — | 2,606as Woerner | 1 in 128K | 2.6K | Woerner | 276 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 306 | Woerner | 65 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Woerner | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Worner | 78 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Woerner | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 96 | 1 in 88K | 96 | Woerner | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Woerner | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
Wörner 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, German surname; plate shows monophthong variation e vs. ö, with e/ö spellings distributed by PLZ.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Gerundete e/ö-Variante zu Werner (Primärumlaut durch Rundung von mhd. e); zeigt die ö-Form der Vollform. 7 Types/3,654 Tokens; ca. 8% gerundete Varianten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Manfred Wörnerb. 1934DEGerman politician (1934-1994)
- Elfie Wörnerb. 1941DEWife of Dr. Manfred Worner (1941-2006)
- Ludwig Wörnerb. 1948DEGerman politician
- Johann-Dietrich Wörnerb. 1954DEGerman engineer
- Natalia Wörnerb. 1967DEGerman actress (born 1967)
- Florian Wörnerb. 1970DEGerman priest and theologian
- Dominik Wörnerb. 1970DEGerman musician and singer
- Anna Wörnerb. 1989DEGerman freestyle skier
- Elisabeth Woernerb. 1990NLDutch rower and cyclist
- Michelle Wörnerb. 1994DEGerman association football player
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 96 | #11,432 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Wörner come from?
- Variant with ö of Werner, from a Germanic personal name; 3,654 bearers. Plate shows e ~ ö vowel variation. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Wörner?
- A machine transcription gives /vœʁnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Wörner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant with ö of Werner, from a Germanic personal name; 3,654 bearers.
- In which country does Wörner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Wörner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wörner.
- How common is the name Wörner?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 96 people named Wörner in 2024, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
- How common is Wörner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wörner is the 876th 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%B6rnerThe 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, “Wörner” — the 876th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.