Wender
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wender is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘dweller by a bend’; see WENDE; first attested Robert Wender 1332 SRCu.
- BRBrazil1 in 15K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 108K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 51K
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
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
14,053 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘dweller by a bend’; see WENDE; first attested Robert Wender 1332 SRCu
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wender 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 | 14,053 | 1 in 15K | 14K | Wender | 100 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Wender | 14 |
| PE Peru | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Wender | 26 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 454 | Wender | 51 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Wender | 11 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Wender | 11 |
| CR Costa Rica | 66 | 1 in 77K | 66 | Wender | 9 |
14,053 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Wender L.P. Bredieb. 1966NLDutch chemist
- Wender Alves SilvaBRresearcher at the University of Brasilia
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 27 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 951 | #9,726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 454 | #49,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 431 | #46,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 412 | #50,659 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Wender mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘dweller by a bend’; see WENDE; first attested Robert Wender 1332 SRCu Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Wender a male or female name?
- Wender is a male 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 Wender have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Wender, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wender.
- Where is Wender most common?
- Wender is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wender?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,053 people named Wender in 2022, about 1 in 15 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/wenderThe 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, “Wender”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.