Waeger
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Waeger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64Kas Wager(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 97Kas Wager
- DEGermany≈1 in 136Kas Wager
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 Waeger 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 172K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 named Wager, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wager in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 5 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)
Waeger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #879 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Wager | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,428as Wager | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Wager | 289 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 1.5K | Wager | 113 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Wager | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Wager | 66 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 311as Wäger | 1 in 27K | 311 | Wager | 18 |
| FI Finland | — | 122as Wager | 1 in 46K | 122 | Wager | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Wager | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Waeger | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21 | 1 in 10M | 441 | — | — |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
- Alfred Waegerb. 1883DEGerman officer
- Kurt Waegerb. 1893DEGerman military personnel (1893-1952)
- Uta Belina Waegerb. 1966ATAustrian painter
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #188,821 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Waeger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Wager in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Waeger?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Waeger, about 1 in 10 million residents.
- How common is Waeger compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Waeger is the 879th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Waeger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waegerThe 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, “Waeger” — the 879th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.