Wessels
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 2816+217 (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ʋɛsəls/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Wessels is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 6,035 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 22K
- USUnited States1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wessels itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,035 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
How to pronounce Wessels
- Dutch:/ʋɛsəls/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 2816+217.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Wessels is found
(measured from records)Wessels 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 6,035 | 1 in 2.9K | 6K | Wessels | 60 |
| US United States | — | 3,805 | 1 in 87K | 3.8K | Wessels | 143 |
| DE Germany | #990 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Wessels | 123 |
| BE Belgium | — | 78 | 1 in 150K | 78 | Wessels | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 48 | 1 in 116K | 48 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 40 | 1 in 137K | 40 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 34 | 1 in 22K | 34 | — | — |
6,035 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)- Peter Wesselsb. 1978NLDutch tennis player
- Stefan Wesselsb. 1979DEGerman football player
- Charlotte Wesselsb. 1987NLDutch 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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wessels mean, and where does it come from?
- Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 2816+217. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Wessels?
- In Dutch /ʋɛsəls/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wessels?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Wessels, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wessels. After it come United States, Germany, Belgium and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Wessels most common?
- Wessels is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wessels?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,035 people named Wessels in 2007, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Wessels compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wessels is the 990th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wesselsThe 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, “Wessels” — ranked 120th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.