Wegmüller
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Wegmüller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 570Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,943 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wegmuller in US United States, FR France, CA Canada 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.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wegmüller 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #442 | 1,943 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.9K | Wegmüller | 31 |
| SS South Sudan | #719 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Wegmuller | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 572K | 13 | Wegmuller | 73 |
| US United States | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | listed | Wegmuller | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Wegmüller | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Wegmuller | 6 |
1,943 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Walter Wegmüllerb. 1937CHSwiss artist (1937-2020)
- Ann Wegmüllerb. 1941GBBritish painter
- Thomas Wegmüllerb. 1960CHSwiss cyclist
- Jürg Wegmüllerb. 1960CHartist
- Marco Wegmüllerb. 1982CHSwiss ice hockey player
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.9K | #496 |
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
- In which country does Wegmüller have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Wegmüller, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wegmüller.
- Where is Wegmüller most common?
- Wegmüller is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wegmüller?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,943 people named Wegmüller in 2024, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Wegmüller compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Wegmüller is the 442nd most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wegm%C3%BCllerThe 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, “Wegmüller” — the 442nd most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.