Wēld
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wēld is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States 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)
- USUnited States1 in 273K
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)
1,218 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
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, HN Honduras, CV Cape Verde.
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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wēld 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,218 | 1 in 273K | 1.3K | Weld | 28 |
| NO Norway | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| HN Honduras | — | — | — | Weld | 3 |
| CV Cape Verde | — | — | — | Weld | 1 |
1,218 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wēld 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].
- Is Wēld a male or female name?
- Wēld is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Wēld have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Wēld, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weld.
- Where is Wēld most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wēld is densest in Norway — about 1 in 114 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wēld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,218 people named Wēld in 2010, about 1 in 273 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C4%93ldThe 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, “Wēld”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.