Wers

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Polish: line

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/vɛrs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 176K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 378K
  • NONorway≈1 in 721K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

217 people, 2026

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

contraction of wer es

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Wers is read(measured from records)

Wers is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Polish23%

    line

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French23%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Wers in French.

  • English21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Wers in English.

  • German8.3%

    contraction of wer es

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic5.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Wers in Arabic.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wers 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.

Where Wers is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2171 in 176K112Wers16
BE Belgium311 in 378K31Wers4
US United States≈9 est.≈1 in 38M—Wers10
DE Germany≈9 est.≈1 in 8.6M—Wers10
NO Norway≈8 est.≈1 in 721K—Wers3
GB United Kingdom≈4 est.≈1 in 15M—Wers10

217 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wers is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Wérs

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Wers is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Vers.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Welsh, soft mutation of gwers

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dum, worse

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSzanowni Państwo,Dear Wers, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Wers
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026112—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—112#27,078
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026105—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—105#28,910
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200831#36,328

Reference works 3

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

Where does the name Wers come from?
contraction of wer es Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Wers?
A machine transcription gives /vɛrs/ (IPA) for Polish.
What does the name Wers mean?
In Polish, line
In which country does Wers have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 217 people named Wers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wers.
Where is Wers most common?
Wers is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 176 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Wers?
In Poland, the national register counted 217 people named Wers in 2026, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.

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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, “Wers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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