Wewel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE hweogol 'wheel'; metonymic for a wheelwright, probably also local; first attested William Wewel 1296
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Wewel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 533K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.6M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OE hweogol 'wheel'; metonymic for a wheelwright, probably also local; first attested William Wewel 1296
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wewel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 533K | — | Wewel | 33 |
| US United States | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Wewel | 58 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Wewel | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | — | Wewel | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Wewel | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Wewel | 3 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Wewel 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 mpx, water
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)- Erich Wewelb. 1894DEGerman journalist and publisher (1894–1974)
- Joseph Wewelb. 1907DEGerman priest (1907–1978)
- Meinolf Wewelb. 1931DEGerman publisher
- Günter Wewelb. 1934DEGerman television presenter, singer and opera singer (1934–2023)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Wewel mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE hweogol 'wheel'; metonymic for a wheelwright, probably also local; first attested William Wewel 1296 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Wewel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people named Wewel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wewel.
- How common is the name Wewel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people in Germany have Wewel as their first surname, about 1 in 533 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wewelThe 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, “Wewel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.