Wachsmuth
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɔksmʊθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wachsmuth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 189K
- FIFinland1 in 253K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
488 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wachsmuth 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 488 | 1 in 682K | 497 | Wachsmuth | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 48 | 1 in 175K | 48 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 46 | 1 in 4.6M | 46 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | — | 1 |
488 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Wachsmuthb. 1784DEGerman historian
- Ferdinand Wachsmuthb. 1802FRFrench painter, printmaker, lithographer and etcher (1802-1869)
- Adolf Wachsmuthb. 1827DEGerman psychiatrist (1827-1865)
- Charles Wachsmuthb. 1829USAmerican paleontologist
- Kurt Wachsmuthb. 1837DEGerman classical philologist, archaeologist and historian of classical antiquity (1837–1905)
- Helene Wachsmuthb. 1844DEGerman painter
- Guenther Wachsmuthb. 1893DEGerman anthroposophist (1893–1963)
- Werner Wachsmuthb. 1900DEGerman military physician and surgeon (1900-1990)
- Horst Wachsmuthb. 1933DEGerman physicist (1933-2008)
- Toni Wachsmuthb. 1986DEGerman footballer
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 497 | #46,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 488 | #44,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 468 | #43,463 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 48 | #19,268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46 | #111,063 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #15,972 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,745 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #76,475 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Wachsmuth?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔksmʊθ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wachsmuth have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 488 people named Wachsmuth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wachsmuth.
- Where is Wachsmuth most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wachsmuth is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wachsmuth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 488 people named Wachsmuth in 2010, about 1 in 682 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/wachsmuthThe 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, “Wachsmuth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.