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Throughout the world, Wel (Well , Wel , เชื่อม) is quite a common gender-neutral forename. The first name Wel is characteristic of Macao, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Mauritania, and Qatar. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Egypt. Likewise, Wel is the last name as well as the forename.
Wel is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: .