Wicht
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person plural preterite of weichen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɪkt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wicht is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- CHSwitzerland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person plural preterite of weichen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Wicht is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Überwiegend Übername zu mhd., mnd. wiht 'Geschöpf, Wicht, Kobold, Zwerg' oder mnd. wicht 'gewichtig, schwer'; evtl. auch Herkunftsname zum Siedlungsnamen Wichte in Niedersachsen; Bearer count 779.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Dutch, living being, creature
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdt, weight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Netherlands), child
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)
- Adolf Wichtb. 1910DEGerman journalist and press secretary (1910–1996)
- Juan Julio Wichtb. 1932PEPeruvian economist
- Bernard Wichtb. 1960CHSwiss jurist
- Cornelia Wichtb. 2000DEGerman author
- Oliver WichtNLresearcher ORCID id 0000-0003-3266-8075
- Alexandra WichtDEGerman researcher
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 664 | #1,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 307 | #61,207 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 287 | #68,547 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 53 | #21,803 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 21 | #45,992 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 21 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10 | #143,714 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #147,859 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,853 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Wicht mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person plural preterite of weichen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Wicht?
- In the etymology graph, Wight is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wicht?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪkt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wicht have the most bearers?
- Wicht is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Wicht?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wichtThe 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, “Wicht”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.