Welder

surname · Latin script

Meaning: One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Welder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 454K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 250K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 362K

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)

732 people, 2010

Sources
187 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Welder 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.

Where Welder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7321 in 454K756Welder187
IN India≈200 est.≈1 in 6.6M—Welder12
CA Canada≈150 est.≈1 in 250K—Welder47
NG Nigeria≈150 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Welder11
DE Germany≈140 est.≈1 in 570KlistedWelder37
ES Spain≈130 est.≈1 in 390K—Welder8
MY Malaysia≈90 est.≈1 in 362K—Welder5
MA Morocco≈86 est.≈1 in 413K—Welder3
AU Australia≈62 est.≈1 in 413K—Welder9

732 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the dfa-band-1 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Welder is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States

    Also written Wèldèr

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Welder is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In hrx, plural of Wald

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pdc, plural of Welt

    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)

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)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Welder
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000756#29,447
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010732#31,587
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020684#35,441
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Welder mean, and where does it come from?
One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Welder have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 732 people named Welder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled welder.
How common is the name Welder?
In the United States, the national register counted 732 people named Welder in 2010, about 1 in 454 thousand residents.

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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, “Welder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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