Wuëst
surname · Latin script
Wuëst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Wüst.
- USUnited States1 in 194K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.1Kas Wüst
- DEGermany≈1 in 16Kas Wüst
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wuëst itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wuest in US United States, CH Switzerland, ID Indonesia and 3 more, Wüst in DE Germany and Wust in NL Netherlands.
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 Wüst.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wuëst 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Wuest | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wüst | 91 |
| CH Switzerland | #281 | 2,051as Wüst | 1 in 4.1K | 2.1K | Wuest | 42 |
| US United States | — | 1,713 | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Wuest | 234 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Wuest | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 155as Wüst | 1 in 111K | 155 | Wust | 15 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Wuest | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Wuest | 4 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wuëst mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Wüst. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Wuëst have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Wuëst in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wuest.
- How common is the name Wuëst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,713 people named Wuëst in 2010, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
- How common is Wuëst compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Wuëst is the 281st most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wuëst?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wu%C3%ABstThe 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, “Wuëst” — the 281st most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.