Welborn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Welborne or Welbourn, respectively Norfolk and Lincolnshire, meaning ‘stream fed by a spring’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɛɫbɝn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Welborn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 47K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 92K
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 4K
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
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
7,095 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Welborne or Welbourn, respectively Norfolk and Lincolnshire, meaning ‘stream fed by a spring’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Welborn 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 | — | 7,095 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Welborn | 308 |
| KP North Korea | #397 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Welborn | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 255 | Welborn | 76 |
| LR Liberia | #170 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Welborn | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Welborn | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Welborn | 13 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Welborn | 2 |
7,095 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- John Welbornb. 1857USAmerican politician (1857-1907)
- Ira Clinton Welbornb. 1874USUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Bob Welbornb. 1928USformer NASCAR driver (1928–1997)
- Justin Welbornb. 1950USAmerican actor
- Amy Welbornb. 1960USAmerican writer
- John Welbornb. 1970AUAustralian rugby union player
- Matt WelbornUSNorth Carolinian musician and library technician
- Luther S WelbornUSWelborn, Luther S; class of 1879
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,956 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.9K | #4,967 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 255 | #18,237 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Welborn mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Welborne or Welbourn, respectively Norfolk and Lincolnshire, meaning ‘stream fed by a spring’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Welborn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛɫbɝn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Welborn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Welborn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled welborn.
- How common is the name Welborn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,095 people named Welborn in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Welborn compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Welborn is the 170th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/welbornThe 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, “Welborn” — the 170th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.