Weïss
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Weïss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (i) person from Weis, Weiss or Weissen, names of various places in Germany; (ii) medieval German and Jewish nickname for someone with white hair or a very pale face, from Middle High German wTz ‘white.
- USUnited States1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 17M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
57,112 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Weiss in US United States, FR France, CH Switzerland.
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)
(i) person from Weis, Weiss or Weissen, names of various places in Germany; (ii) medieval German and Jewish nickname for someone with white hair or a very pale face, from Middle High German wTz ‘white’.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weïss 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 | — | 57,112 | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Weiss | 207 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,843 | 1 in 27K | 7.8K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4,361 | 1 in 1.9K | 4.4K | Weiss | 38 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,587 | 1 in 15K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,079 | 1 in 22K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 986 | 1 in 11K | 986 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | 464 | 1 in 12K | 464 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 310 | 1 in 6.8K | 310 | — | 1 |
| FR France | #348 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 17M | 1.6K | Weiss | 282 |
57,112 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Weïss mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from Weis, Weiss or Weissen, names of various places in Germany; (ii) medieval German and Jewish nickname for someone with white hair or a very pale face, from Middle High German wTz ‘white… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History and 1 other source.
- In which country does Weïss have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Weïss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weiss.
- Where is Weïss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Weïss is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Weïss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,112 people named Weïss in 2010, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Weïss compared with other names?
- In France, Weïss is the 348th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/we%C3%AFssThe 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, “Weïss” — the 348th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.