Wengert
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kurzform zu Weingarten/Weingart; lautlicher Abbau der Grundform
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɛŋɡɝt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wengert is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 263K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 379K
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)
878 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kurzform zu Weingarten/Weingart; lautlicher Abbau der Grundform. 544 Bearer.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wengert 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 | 878 | 1 in 379K | 1K | Wengert | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 32 | 1 in 263K | 32 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | 15 | Wengert | 67 |
| DM Dominica | — | — | 2 | — | — |
878 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 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Wengert is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname bzw. Wohnstätten-/Herkunftname zum Weingarten; Winzerbezug.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Wengertb. 1835DEGerman politician (1835-1896)
- Julius Wengertb. 1871DE(1871-1925)
- Norman Wengertb. 1916USAmerican political scientist
- Paul Wengertb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Don Wengertb. 1969USMajor League Baseball pitcher
- Anja Wengertb. 1980DEGerman association football player
- Nina Wengertb. 1984DEGerman rower
- Joe WengertAmerican actor
- Katharina WengertDEGerman association football 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 977 | #24,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 878 | #27,452 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 32 | #26,077 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Wengert?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛŋɡɝt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wengert mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kurzform zu Weingarten/Weingart; lautlicher Abbau der Grundform.
- In which country does Wengert have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 878 people named Wengert, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wengert.
- Where is Wengert most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wengert is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 263 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wengert?
- In the United States, the national register counted 878 people named Wengert in 2010, about 1 in 379 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wengertThe 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, “Wengert”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.