Wenning
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym mit -ing; zu Werner, also 'Sohn des Werner'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwɛnɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wenning is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 281K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 20K
- NLNetherlands1 in 92K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Patronym mit -ing; zu Werner, also 'Sohn des Werner'. 939 Belege.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wenning 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Wenning | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,182 | 1 in 281K | 1.2K | Wenning | 197 |
| BR Brazil | — | 341 | 1 in 621K | 341 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 187 | 1 in 92K | 187 | Wenning | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Wenning | 29 |
| DK Denmark | — | 45 | 1 in 130K | 45 | Wenning | 12 |
| SH St. Helena | #341 | — | — | — | Wenning | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Pieter Wenningb. 1873NLSouth African artist (1873-1921)
- Theodor Wenningb. 1887DEGerman politician (1887–1958)
- Wilhelm Wenningb. 1950DEGerman judge and politician
- Arnulf Wenningb. 1957DEGerman musician
- Gregor Wenningb. 1964DEGerman neurologist
- Michael Wenningb. 1965DEGerman journalist
- Andreas Wenningb. 1965DEGerman architect
- Thorsten Wenningb. 1982DEGerman screenwriter and film director
- Keith Wenningb. 1991USAmerican football player (born 1991)
- SRSQUSnot in their usual nameAmerican keyboardist, singer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,960 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 341 | #23,774 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 187 | #11,098 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 45 | #11,633 |
| 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Wenning?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛnɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wenning mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym mit -ing; zu Werner, also 'Sohn des Werner'.
- In which country does Wenning have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Wenning in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wenning.
- How common is the name Wenning?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,182 people named Wenning in 2010, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
- How common is Wenning compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Wenning is the 341st most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wenningThe 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, “Wenning” — the 341st most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.