Waeber
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vaeːbɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waeber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8Mas Waber(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.5K
- FRFrance≈1 in 927K
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 Waeber 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)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,301 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Waber in US United States, DE Germany, NZ New Zealand and 1 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waeber 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 | #410 | 1,301 | 1 in 6.5K | 1.3K | Waeber | 38 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Waber | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Waber | 48 |
| US United States | — | 188as Waber | 1 in 1.8M | 240 | Waber | 130 |
| FR France | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 927K | 7 | Waeber | 90 |
| FI Finland | — | 30as Waber | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Waber | 1 |
1,301 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Aleksandrs Vēbersb. 1848LVnot in their usual nameBaltic German journalist (1848-1910)
- Louis Waeberb. 1882CH(1882-1961)
- Arnold Waeberb. 1923CHSwiss politician (1923-1988)
- Esther Waeber-Kalbermattenb. 1952CHSwiss politician
- Gérard Waeberb. 1958CHresearcher
- Stephanie Waeberb. 2000CHSwiss association football player
- Patrick O. WaeberCAresearcher
- Rolf WaeberUSPh.D. Cornell University 2013
- Christian Waeberresearcher
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.3K | #841 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Waeber?
- A machine transcription gives /vaeːbɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Waeber have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Waeber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waeber.
- Where is Waeber most common?
- Waeber is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Waeber?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,301 people named Waeber in 2024, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Waeber compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Waeber is the 410th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Waeber?
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/waeberThe 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, “Waeber” — the 410th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.