Weißenborn
loc · Latin script
Meaning: zum Typ Born-, -born; in Thüringen (Raum Mühlhausen), wohl Herkunftsname zu Weißenborn bei Gera; Bearer count: 981+134
Weißenborn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 279Kas Weissenborn
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600Kas Weissenborn
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 Weißenborn 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
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 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 Weissenborn in US United States, CH Switzerland, SE Sweden.
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)
zum Typ Born-, -born; in Thüringen (Raum Mühlhausen), wohl Herkunftsname zu Weißenborn bei Gera; Bearer count: 981+134
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weißenborn 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Weißenborn | 77 |
| US United States | 264as Weissenborn | 1 in 1.3M | 274 | Weissenborn | 71 |
| AR Argentina | 28as Weissenborn | 1 in 1.6M | 28 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 21as Weissenborn | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14as Weissenborn | 1 in 600K | 14 | Weissenborn | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 8as Weissenborn | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | Weissenborn | 6 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
- Friederike Caroline Neuberb. 1697DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor, theatre manager, and co-founder of regular German drama (1697–1760)
- Hermann Weißenbornb. 1876DEGerman Bariton and singing professor
- Erna Weißenbornb. 1898DEGerman actress (1898-1973)
- Günther Weißenbornb. 1911DEGerman classical pianist, accompanist, conductor and academic teacher (1911–2001)
- Theodor Weißenbornb. 1933DEGerman author (1933–2021)
- Günther Weißenbornb. 1951DEGerman dramaturge
- Eva Weißenbornb. 1954DEfilm actor and stage actor
- Ingo Weißenbornb. 1963DEfencer
- Thomas Weißenbornb. 1968DEGerman author and theologian
- Tibor Weißenbornb. 1981DEfield hockey 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
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 Weißenborn mean?
- Recorded meaning: zum Typ Born-, -born; in Thüringen (Raum Mühlhausen), wohl Herkunftsname zu Weißenborn bei Gera; Bearer count: 981+134
- In which country does Weißenborn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Weißenborn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weißenborn.
- How common is the name Weißenborn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 264 people named Weissenborn in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/wei%C3%9FenbornThe 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, “Weißenborn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.