Wernér
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Wernér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Germanic: *waraz (“cautious; heedful; wary; watchful”) + *harjaz (“army; army leader”); roughly equivalent to English Warner.
- DKDenmark1 in 15K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 8.4K
- NONorway1 in 8.6K
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)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
3,895 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Werner in US United States, NO Norway, DK Denmark.
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)Germanic: *waraz (“cautious; heedful; wary; watchful”) + *harjaz (“army; army leader”); roughly equivalent to English Warner.
Cited for this meaning 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wernér 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 | — | 3,895 | 1 in 85K | 34K | Werner | 114 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,845 | 1 in 21K | 3.2K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,709 | 1 in 124K | 2.1K | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 666 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.4K | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | #686 | 634 | 1 in 8.6K | 2.2K | Werner | 49 |
| DK Denmark | #523 | 382 | 1 in 15K | 480 | Werner | 85 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 95 | 1 in 54K | 95 | — | — |
3,895 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 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57 | #20,450 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 36 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wernér mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic: *waraz (“cautious; heedful; wary; watchful”) + *harjaz (“army; army leader”); roughly equivalent to English Warner. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Wernér have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Wernér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled werner.
- Where is Wernér most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wernér is densest in Finland — about 1 in 8.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wernér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,895 people named Wernér in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Wernér compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Wernér is the 523rd most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wern%C3%A9rThe 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, “Wernér” — the 523rd most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.