Wessler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɛsɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wessler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Wessler.
- DEGermany≈1 in 142K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 615K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 35K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Borrowed from German Wessler.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wessler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Wessler | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 972 | 1 in 218K | 972 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Wessler | 62 |
| US United States | 541 | 1 in 615K | 554 | Wessler | 191 |
| IT Italy | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Wessler | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 595K | — | Wessler | 12 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Wessler | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Carl Wesslerb. 1913USAmerican comics writer (1913-1989)
- Susan R. Wesslerb. 1953USAmerican biologist
- Silja Wesslerb. 1970ATresearcher
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 972 | #9,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 554 | #37,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 541 | #40,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 540 | #43,119 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Wessler mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Wessler. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Wessler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛsɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wessler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Wessler in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wessler.
- How common is the name Wessler?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 972 people named Wessler, about 1 in 218 thousand 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/wesslerThe 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, “Wessler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.