Waende
surname · Latin script
Waende is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 7.3Kas Wande(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 50Kas Wande
- NGNigeria≈1 in 76Kas Wande
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 Waende 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 named Wande, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est., as Wande
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wande in NG Nigeria, US United States, TZ Tanzania 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waende 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Wande | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Wande | 37 |
| ML Mali | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 726K | 13 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | listed | Wande | 78 |
| BR Brazil | 73as Wande | 1 in 2.9M | 74 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 813K | — | Wande | 6 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Waende is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dum, first/third-person singular past indicative/subjunctive of wânen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Waende have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Wande in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Waende?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 73 people named Wande in 2022, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Waende?
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/waendeThe 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, “Waende”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.