Wendler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wendler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: either from Wandler or the place-name Wendling.
- ARArgentina1 in 43K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 77K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
1,832 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
either from Wandler or the place-name Wendling
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wendler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,832 | 1 in 182K | 1.8K | Wendler | 52 |
| AR Argentina | 1,070 | 1 in 43K | 1.1K | Wendler | 50 |
| PL Poland | 120 | 1 in 319K | 67 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 96 | 1 in 88K | 96 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 65 | 1 in 157K | 65 | Wendler | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 44 | 1 in 77K | 44 | Wendler | 3 |
| NO Norway | 40 | 1 in 137K | 40 | — | — |
1,832 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- Michael Wendlerb. 1610DEGerman Lutheran theologian and moral philosopher (1610–1671)
- Otto Wendlerb. 1861DEGerman writer (1861-1906)
- Richard Wendlerb. 1898DEGerman politician and SS general, Heinrich Himmler's brother-in-law (1898–1972)
- Hansi Wendlerb. 1912DEGerman actress (1912-2010)
- Lothar Wendlerb. 1927DEGerman politician and local historian (1927-2016)
- Michael Wendlerb. 1972DEGerman singer
- Edwin Wendlerb. 1975ATAustrian composer
- Christian Wendlerb. 1989DEGerman ice hockey player
- Philipp Wendlerb. 1991ATAustrian footballer
- Christian WendlerDEGerman politician (AfD)
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,041 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 96 | #11,432 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 67 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 67 | #40,988 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 65 | #10,138 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 53 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 53 | #48,106 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 44 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 40 | #29,693 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Wendler mean, and where does it come from?
- either from Wandler or the place-name Wendling Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Wendler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Wendler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wendler.
- Where is Wendler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wendler is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wendler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,832 people named Wendler in 2010, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wendlerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Wendler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.