Weldon

surname · Latin script

Meaning: person from Weldon, Northamptonshire, meaning ‘hill with a spring’

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

/wɛɫdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Weldon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 23K
  • CACanada≈1 in 26K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈21,000 people, est.

Sources
401 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person from Weldon, Northamptonshire, meaning ‘hill with a spring’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Weldon 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 Weldon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Weldon7
US United States—14,5381 in 23K15KWeldon401
GB United Kingdom—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 21K2.4KWeldon155
CA Canada—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 26K1Weldon121
IT Italy—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 57K—Weldon9
IE Ireland#916≈500 est.≈1 in 10K—Weldon74
IS Iceland—≈23 est.≈1 in 15K1——
AG Antigua & Barbuda#172———Weldon1

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); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Weldon is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, first attested William de Welledori 1197 P (Nth), Henry de Weldon 1327 SRWo; etymology not visible in excerpt

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, dun hill (see Down i). Wendland(t), in Suffolk and Sussex, both of which seem to have as their first element OE ivenn tumour, used of a tumulus or hill. The former is probably ‘homestead (OE ham) by a hill’, the latter ‘watermeadow (OE hamm) with tumuli’. Vars.: Welldon, Wel(l)den.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In English, Old English: from the hill with spring

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Irish, de Bhéalatún. An Anglo-Irish family settled in the Pale since the fourteenth century; also called Veldon and Belton. In Co. Fermanagh they may be of Irish origin from Ó Maoldúin, which is called Meldon as well as Muldoon. MIF

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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)

1850190019502000Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, b. 1860Francis Weldon, b. 1913Joan Weldon, b. 1930Fay Weldon, b. 1931Charles Weldon, b. 1940John Weldon, b. 1945Curt Weldon, b. 1947Fred Weldon Leslie, b. 1951Dave Weldon, b. 1953

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)

FormalDear Mr Weldon,
InformalHi Weldon,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Weldon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,481
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,367
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,620
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20022.4K#3,115
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Weldon mean, and where does it come from?
person from Weldon, Northamptonshire, meaning ‘hill with a spring’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Weldon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Weldon in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weldon.
How common is the name Weldon?
In the United States, the national register counted 14,538 people named Weldon in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Weldon compared with other names?
In Antigua & Barbuda, Weldon is the 172nd most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
How do you pronounce Weldon?
A machine transcription gives /wɛɫdən/ (IPA) for English.

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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, “Weldon” — the 172nd most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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