Waehli
surname · Latin script
Waehli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 28Kas Wahli(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1Mas Wahli
- USUnited States≈1 in 14Mfew recordsas Wahli
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 Waehli 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
295 named Wahli, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Wahli
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Waehli in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Wahli in CH Switzerland, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Waehli is found
(measured from records)Waehli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 295as Wahli | 1 in 28K | 295 | Wahli | 24 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Wahli | 38 |
| DE Germany | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Wahli | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Wahli | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Wahli | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1as Wahli | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
295 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Waehli?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 295 people named Wahli, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Waehli most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Waehli itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people named Wahli.
- How common is the name Waehli?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 295 people named Wahli in 2024, about 1 in 28 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/waehliThe 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, “Waehli” — ranked 4421st in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.