Wöste

surname · Latin script

Wöste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a name for waste, uncultivated land / barren ground; 16 types / 1192 tokens.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 124Kas Woeste(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 584Kas Woeste
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 3.7M

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 Wöste 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 named Woeste, est.

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

WoesteLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Woeste in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 5 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)

Toponymic surname from a name for waste, uncultivated land / barren ground; 16 types / 1192 tokens.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wöste 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 Wöste is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈2,900 est.≈1 in 484K—Woeste1
DE Germany≈650 est.≈1 in 124K—Woeste67
US United States570as Woeste1 in 584K603Woeste160
DZ Algeria≈53 est.≈1 in 812K—Woeste1
IT Italy≈46 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Woeste2
AU Australia≈36 est.≈1 in 712K—Woeste9
IE Ireland≈14 est.≈1 in 375K—Woeste1
NL Netherlands≈5 est.≈1 in 3.7M—Woeste3

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. 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Woste

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Wilhelm Wöste, b. 1911Ludger Wöste, b. 1946Frank Wöste, b. 1976

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

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

What does the name Wöste mean, and where does it come from?
Toponymic surname from a name for waste, uncultivated land / barren ground; 16 types / 1192 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
In which country does Wöste have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Woeste in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Wöste?
In the United States, the national register counted 570 people named Woeste in 2010, about 1 in 584 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, “Wöste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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