Wambach
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈwɔmbɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wambach is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 427K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- BEBelgium1 in 733K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 427K (inferred from the name graph)
779 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Wambach 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 | 779 | 1 in 427K | 779 | Wambach | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
779 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Blasius Wambachb. 1500DEGerman abbot (1500-1493)
- Émile Wambachb. 1854BEBelgian conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator (1854-1924)
- Helen Wambachb. 1925USborn:1925|died:1985|; Wambach, Helen, 1925-1985; Wambach, Helen 1925-1985 dr; Wambach, Helen, dr., 1925-1985
- Nel Wambachb. 1938NLartistic gymnast
- Peter Wambachb. 1946USAmerican politician
- Bernhard Wambachb. 1948DEGerman pianist
- Matthias Wambachb. 1963DEGerman politician
- Achim Wambachb. 1968DEGerman economist
- Abby Wambachb. 1980USAmerican soccer player (born 1980)
- Kai WambachDEGerman historian of the modern age and writer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 779 | #30,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 742 | #33,102 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 731 | #30,229 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #54,338 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10 | #63,760 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #99,450 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,285 |
| 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 Wambach?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔmbɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wambach have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 779 people named Wambach, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wambach.
- Where is Wambach most common?
- Wambach is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 427 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wambach?
- In the United States, the national register counted 779 people named Wambach in 2010, about 1 in 427 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wambach?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wambachThe 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, “Wambach”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.