Wehner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Typ mit monophthongischen und kontrahierten Varianten zu mhd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries
Wehner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 26Kas Венер(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 44Kas Vener
- FIFinland1 in 223Kas Venner
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wehner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 named Венер, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Венер
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Vener in PH Philippines, BR Brazil, ID Indonesia and Венер in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)Typ mit monophthongischen und kontrahierten Varianten zu mhd. wænen 'hoffen'; auch Herkunftsnamen möglich. 5252 Belege. Die Karte zeigt a/ä/e-Variation.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wehner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #560 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | register #353 | Венер | 121 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Vener | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Vener | 6 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Венер | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 76as Vener | 1 in 2.8M | 224 | Vener | 25 |
| FI Finland | — | 25as Venner | 1 in 223K | 76 | — | 1 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Wehner is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, t-Antritt: -ert-Variante Wehnert; morphologische Namensform, 4457 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Nikolaus Wehnerb. 1901DEGerman politician (1901-1942)
- Herbert Wehnerb. 1906DEGerman politician (KPD, SPD) (1906-1990)
- Bernhard Wehnerb. 1909DESS officer (1909–1995)
- Greta Wehnerb. 1924DEGerman politician (1924-2017)
- Harald Wehnerb. 1938DEGerman association football player (1938-2012)
- Martin Wehnerb. 1945DEGerman politician
- John Wehnerb. 1967USAmerican baseball player
- Thorsten Wehnerb. 1967DEGerman politician
- Oliver Wehnerb. 1984DEMember of the Landtag of Saxony
- David WehnerUSformer Chief Financial Officer of Facebook
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 224 | #33,472 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #28,572 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Wehner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Typ mit monophthongischen und kontrahierten Varianten zu mhd.
- In which country does Wehner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Венер in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wehner?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 76 people named Vener in 2022, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Wehner compared with other names?
- In Russia, Wehner is the 560th most common given name of 472,143 given names 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/wehnerThe 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, “Wehner” — the 560th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.