Wian

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 49K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M

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)

176 people, 2010

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wian 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.

Where Wian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1761 in 1.9M191Wian10
NO Norway1121 in 49K112—2
GT Guatemala———Wian1
BR Brazil——146Wian16
NL Netherlands——15—1

176 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wian is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Wayne, เวน, We, เวียน, Wen

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Wian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000191#89,895
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010176#102,197
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020159#116,252
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—112#13,860
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Wian have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 176 people named Wian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wian.
Where is Wian most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wian is densest in Norway — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wian?
In the United States, the national register counted 176 people named Wian in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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The 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, “Wian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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