Weissenborn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: archaic spelling of Weißenborn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈwaɪsɪnbɝn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Weissenborn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 48Kas Weißenborn(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 279K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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 Weissenborn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 279K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named Weißenborn, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Weißenborn in DE Germany.
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)archaic spelling of Weißenborn
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Weissenborn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Weißenborn | 77 |
| US United States | 264 | 1 in 1.3M | 274 | Weissenborn | 71 |
| AR Argentina | 28 | 1 in 1.6M | 28 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | Weissenborn | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | Weissenborn | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Hermann Weissenbornb. 1813DEGerman classical philologist and librarian (1813-1886)
- Georg Weissenbornb. 1816DEGerman philosopher and university teacher
- Hermann Weissenbornb. 1830DEGerman mathematician
- Julius Weissenbornb. 1837DEGerman bassoonist and composer
- Bernhard Weissenbornb. 1858DEGerman zoologist (1858-1889)
- Gustav Weissenbornb. 1877DEGerman politician
- Else Weissenbornb. 1877NLDutch photographer (1877–1950)
- Thilly Weissenbornb. 1883NLDutch photographer
- Lee Weissenbornb. 1929USAmerican politician (1929-2017)
- Martin J Weissenbornb. 1984DEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1200-4485
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 266 | #77,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 264 | #73,464 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 28 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #22,542 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #43,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Weissenborn mean, and where does it come from?
- archaic spelling of Weißenborn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Weissenborn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwaɪsɪnbɝn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Weissenborn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Weißenborn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Weissenborn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Weissenborn is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 279 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Weissenborn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 264 people named Weissenborn in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weissenbornThe 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, “Weissenborn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.