Wido
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wido is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In German, recorded as from the given name Wido, usually linked to Germanic *widu- / *witu- ‘wood’.
- NLNetherlands1 in 157K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 183K
- PEPeru≈1 in 334K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 157K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the given name Wido, usually linked to Germanic *widu- / *witu- ‘wood’
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wido is read(measured from records)
Wido is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wido in Indonesian.
- Spanish22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wido in Spanish.
- German20%
from the given name Wido, usually linked to Germanic *widu- / *witu- ‘wood’
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
) Wito; Widu: alter deutscher männl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Wid-«, »Wit-« gebildet sind, z. B.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English5.4%
Aware of what is going on; fly, alert.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wido 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 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 183K | listed | Wido | 54 |
| NL Netherlands | 110 | 1 in 157K | 110 | Wido | 34 |
| PE Peru | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Wido | 3 |
| CL Chile | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 412K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 161 | Wido | 86 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Wido 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 Russian, var of Vido.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Guy of Hautevilleb. 1060not in their usual nameItalo-Norman duke of Amalfi
- Wido Hempelb. 1930DEGerman Romanist and university teacher (1930–2006)
- Wido Bourelb. 1955FRFrench author
- Wido PlatteauBEBelgian performing artist
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 161 | #109,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 148 | #110,523 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Wido mean, and where does it come from?
- from the given name Wido, usually linked to Germanic *widu- / *witu- ‘wood’ Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Wido a male or female name?
- Wido is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Wido?
- In the etymology graph, Guy, Guido and Vít are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wido have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 438 people named Wido in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wido.
- Where is Wido most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wido is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 157 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wido?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 110 people named Wido, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wido?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/widoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Wido”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.