Wenaas

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 24K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wenaas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

230 people

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

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)

Wenaas 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 Wenaas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway2301 in 24K230Wenaas31
US United States1501 in 2.2M151Wenaas32
NL Netherlands39as Wenas1 in 443K39——
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1
SE Sweden1as Wenås1 in 10M1—4

230 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Evelyn Wenaas, b. 1909Johan Arnt Wenaas, b. 1941Ronald Wenaas, b. 1968

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 Wenaas,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Wenaas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—230#6,812
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020151#120,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010150#116,201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000133#120,330
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Wenaas?
A machine transcription gives /wɛnəəz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Wenaas have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 230 people named Wenaas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wenaas.
Where is Wenaas most common?
Wenaas is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Wenaas?
In Norway, the national register counted 230 people named Wenaas, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wenaas

The 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, “Wenaas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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