Wahren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to protect, to safeguard (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/vareːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Wahren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 70K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 121K
- DEGermany≈1 in 220Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Wahren
- Swedish:/vareːn/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to protect, to safeguard
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Wahren is found
(measured from records)Wahren 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | Wahren | 53 |
| SE Sweden | 145 | 1 in 70K | 145 | Wahren | 10 |
| FI Finland | 46 | 1 in 121K | 46 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | listed | Wahren | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | Wahren | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Wahren | 3 |
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: the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Wahren is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, place name from Leipzig
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ON. Leipzig
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jakob Wahrenb. 1784SESwedish businessperson
- Axel Wilhelm Wahrenb. 1814SEFinnish industry businessman
- John Wahrenb. 1937SESwedish diabetologist
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wahren mean, and where does it come from?
- to protect, to safeguard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wahren?
- In Swedish /vareːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wahren?
- Mondonomo estimates about 376 people named Wahren in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wahren. After it come Sweden, Finland, United States and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Wahren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wahren is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wahren?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 145 people named Wahren, about 1 in 70 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/wahrenThe 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, “Wahren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.