Weş

surname · Latin script

Weş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,923 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Weş is also written เวซ in Thai and 웨스 in Korean (Hangul).

  • CACanada≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 25K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 27K

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.

United States (measured from records)

9,923 people, 2020

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
440 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Weş in other scripts: Thai and Korean (Hangul)

(measured from records)
WeşLatin(measured from records)
เวซWeş in Thai(measured from records)
웨스Weş in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wes in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 4 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.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Weş 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 Weş is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,9231 in 34K9.9KWes440
CA Canada—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 13K8Wes162
GB United Kingdom—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 55KlistedWes141
AU Australia—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 25K1Wes107
ID Indonesia—≈720 est.≈1 in 397K—Wes30
NL Netherlands—6451 in 27K645Wes29
IE Ireland#934≈140 est.≈1 in 38K—Wes15

9,923 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Wes

3 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Weş under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people named Weş?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Weş, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wes. After it come Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Weş?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,923 people named Weş in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
How common is Weş compared with other names?
In Ireland, Weş is the 934th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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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, “Weş” — ranked 2481st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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