Wande
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of wand
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wande is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 50K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 76K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
Obsolete form of wand.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wande 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 | 73 | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)
Wande is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Walloon, Wandre (a district of Liege, Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, inflection of wannen:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, once
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wande Coalb. 1985NGNigerian singer-songwriter
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Wande mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of wand. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Wande a male or female name?
- Wande is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Wande have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Wande in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wande.
- How common is the name Wande?
- 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 Wande?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wandeThe 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, “Wande”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.