Welen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɛlẽ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Welen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 162K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2M
- SESweden≈1 in 7.1M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)
1,308 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Welén in SE Sweden.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Welen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,308 | 1 in 162K | 1.7K | Welen | 47 |
| PH Philippines | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Welen | 8 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 67M | listed | Welen | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Welen | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Welen | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Welen | 4 |
| SE Sweden | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Welén | 11 |
1,308 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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)
Welen 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 Russian, var of Velen.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In nds (Germany), plural of Weel
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.7K | #6,649 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.4K | #3,677 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #6,910 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 602 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 468 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 385 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 331 | #8,201 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 220 | #6,910 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 217 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Welen?
- A machine transcription gives /wɛlẽ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Welen a male or female name?
- Welen is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Welen have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Welen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled welen.
- Where is Welen most common?
- Welen is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 162 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Welen?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,308 people named Welen in 2022, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Welen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/welenThe 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, “Welen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.