Wencel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wencel is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Wenzel, from Old Czech.
- USUnited States
- PLPoland
- CACanada
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(measured from records)
- GermanWenzel(measured from records)
- OldCzech(measured from records)
Borrowed from German Wenzel, from Old Czech.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wencel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, child
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)
- Adalbert Wenzel, Graf von Clary und Aldringenb. 1778not in their usual name23 Dec 1778 - 25 Jun 1809
- Józef Wencelb. 1874PLOfficer of the Polish Army
- Janina Wencelb. 1912PLPolish sportsperson and athletics competitor (1912-1999)
- Tadeusz Wencelb. 1926PLPolish sculptor
- Tadeusz Wencelb. 1927PLPolish neurosurgeon
- Ewa Wencelb. 1955PLPolish actress and screenwriter
- Hanna Bis-Wencelb. 1959PLresearcher
- Roman Piotr WencelPLPolish mathematician
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,319 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 311 | #64,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 302 | #62,046 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 268 | #77,203 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #96,827 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 32 | #39,658 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 32 | #12,932 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,342 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12 | #127,230 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wencel mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Wenzel, from Old Czech. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Wencel have the most bearers?
- Wencel is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Wencel?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wencelThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Wencel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.