Welcher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who welches (i.e
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɛɫtʃɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Welcher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 117K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 171K
- BEBelgium1 in 733K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
1,944 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who welches (i.e. who fails to repay a debt).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Welcher 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 | 1,944 | 1 in 171K | 1.9K | Welcher | 54 |
| DK Denmark | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 23 | 1 in 2M | 23 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | 1 |
1,944 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Welcher is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu mhd., mnd. walker/welker 'Tuchwalker'; 39 Belege. Demonstriert k > kh/hh nach l im Oberdeutschen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Belegte Form im Guttural-/Konsonantenwandel; Konkurrenzform zu Walcher, Walker und Welker. 39 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, which; what
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Marie Gistedtb. 1870SEnot in their usual nameSwedish stage actress
- Dan Welcherb. 1948USAmerican composer
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,163 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #16,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,328 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 50 | #10,528 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #54,206 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- Where does the name Welcher come from?
- One who welches (i.e. who fails to repay a debt). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Welcher?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛɫtʃɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Welcher mean?
- Recorded meaning: One who welches (i.e.
- In which country does Welcher have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Welcher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled welcher.
- Where is Welcher most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Welcher is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Welcher?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,944 people named Welcher in 2010, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/welcherThe 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, “Welcher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.