Weiner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) builder or driver of carts; (ii) different form of Wiener; (iii) invented Jewish name based on Yiddish 'wine merchant'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Weiner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 23K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 8.4K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(i) builder or driver of carts; (ii) different form of Wiener; (iii) invented Jewish name based on Yiddish 'wine merchant'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weiner 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 | — | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Weiner | 9 |
| US United States | — | 14,208 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Weiner | 405 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 357 | Weiner | 106 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Weiner | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Weiner | 6 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Weiner | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Weiner | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | #704 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Weiner | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Weiner is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Place name from Weinen, but Weiner is the Yiddish word = Wine trader or wine producer, Weinheimer too Baden 1809. Weinmann only in the area of Gochsheime, and in the districts of Under/Middle Rhein, Baden. The Yiddish word Weinles was changed for the Weinglas. Weinschenk or Weinshank are both US phonetic forms.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In German, 1) variant of Wagner; 2) from ON Wein(e); 3) Slavic viniaf 'winemaker'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, Misspelling of wiener.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Typ mit diphthongischen und monophthongischen Varianten; möglich zu RufN Winiheri, zu Siedlungsnamen Wein(e), zu mhd. weiner 'der Weinende' oder slav. viniař 'Weinschenk'. 1363 Belege. Die Karte zeigt i/y, ai/ei, oi/o-Variation.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In English, Edmund, British lexicographer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leo Weinerb. 1885HU(1885–1960) composer, music pedagogue
- Lawrence Weinerb. 1942USAmerican artist (1942–2021)
- Marc Weinerb. 1955USAmerican comedian
- Tim Weinerb. 1956USAmerican journalist
- Michael Weinerb. 1961USAmerican baseball executive (1961–2013)
- Anthony Weinerb. 1964USAmerican politician (born 1964)
- Matthew Weinerb. 1965USAmerican screenwriter (born 1965)
- Jennifer Weinerb. 1970USAmerican writer
- Reid Scottb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1977)
- Erik Weinerb. 1977USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,763 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 357 | #14,519 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Weiner mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) builder or driver of carts; (ii) different form of Wiener; (iii) invented Jewish name based on Yiddish 'wine merchant' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Weiner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Weiner in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weiner.
- How common is the name Weiner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,208 people named Weiner in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Weiner compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Weiner is the 704th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weinerThe 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, “Weiner” — the 704th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.