Wengel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Wengel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 233 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Wengel is also written ወንጌል in Ethiopic.
- DKDenmark1 in 51K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 322K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wengel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
233 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Wengel in other scripts: Ethiopic
(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Wengel is found
(measured from records)Wengel 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.
233 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Jules Wengelb. 1865FRGerman-French painter (1865-1934)
- Hans Wengelb. 1914DEGerman navy officer and WWII submarine commander
- Jesper Wengelb. 1968DKresearcher
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wengel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 233 people named Wengel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Wengel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wengel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wengel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 233 people named Wengel in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wengel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wengelThe 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, “Wengel” — ranked 66476th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.