Wěn
surname · Latin script
Wěn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 6,234 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz.
- SESweden1 in 48K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 53K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 104K
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
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
6,234 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wen in US United States, MY Malaysia, ES Spain.
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 Englishwen(measured from records)
- Old Englishwenn“wen”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*wanjaz(measured from records)
From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wěn 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 | — | 6,234 | 1 in 53K | 8.5K | Wen | 342 |
| SE Sweden | — | 212 | 1 in 48K | 212 | — | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 142 | 1 in 352K | 438 | Wen | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | 109 | 1 in 1.9M | 109 | — | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 49 | 1 in 104K | 49 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 47 | 1 in 125K | 49 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 37 | 1 in 151K | 106 | — | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | #191 | — | — | — | Wen | 89 |
6,234 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Wěn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Recorded by Wiktionary and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Which countries have the most people named Wěn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Wěn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wen. After it come Sweden, Spain, Brazil and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Wěn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wěn is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wěn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,234 people named Wěn in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Wěn compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Wěn is the 191st most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C4%9BnThe 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, “Wěn” — ranked 3388th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.