Welten
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈʋɛl.tə(n)/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary
Welten is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. In German, recorded as inflection of Welt:.
- NLNetherlands
- CHSwitzerland
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Welten is read
(measured from records)Welten is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Welten in English.
- Dutch31%
a neighbourhood of Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German17%
inflection of Welt:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Welten in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Marcel Weltenb. 1969NLDutch bobsledder
- Lidewij Weltenb. 1990NLDutch field hockey player
- Bram Weltenb. 1997NLDutch cyclist
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Welten?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /ˈʋɛl.tə(n)/ (Wiktionary); in German /ˈvɛltn̩/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Welten mean?
- In German, inflection of Welt:
- In which country does Welten have the most bearers?
- Welten is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Welten?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weltenThe 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, “Welten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.