Wiebe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zu Rufname Wigbert (ahd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wiebe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 66K
- SESweden1 in 102K
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)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
3,754 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronym zu Rufname Wigbert (ahd. wig 'Kampf' + berht 'glänzend'); 1870 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wiebe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,754 | 1 in 89K | 3.9K | Wiebe | 184 |
| AR Argentina | 419 | 1 in 109K | 419 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 100 | 1 in 102K | 100 | Wiebe | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 85 | 1 in 203K | 5.1K | Wiebe | 35 |
| CH Switzerland | 62 | 1 in 136K | 62 | — | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 51 | 1 in 66K | 51 | — | — |
3,754 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Wiebe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Aus einem germanischen Rufnamen, wohl Kurzform zu einem mit Wib-/Wieb- anlautenden Personennamen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, weibl. Vom., verselbstständigte nie derdeutsch-friesische Kurzform von Zusam mensetzungen mit »Wig-« (ahd. wig »Kampf, Krieg«) und einem mit »-b« an lautenden zweiten Namenbestandteil (z. B.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Rudy Wiebeb. 1934CACanadian writer
- Jack Wiebeb. 1936CACanadian politician (1936-2007)
- Dietrich Wiebeb. 1938DEGerman politician (1938-2009)
- Warren Wiebeb. 1953USAmerican musician (1953–1998)
- Wendy Wiebeb. 1965CACanadian rower
- Alejandro Wiebeb. 1970ARTelevision, Radio Host and Comedian
- Matt Wiebeb. 1979CACanadian politician
- Erica Wiebeb. 1989CACanadian wrestler
- Danilo Wiebeb. 1994DEGerman footballer
- Cainan Wiebeb. 1995CACanadian actor
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,243 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,317 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 419 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 100 | #7,213 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 85 | #21,454 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 62 | #15,845 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 51 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Wiebe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Rufname Wigbert (ahd.
- In which country does Wiebe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Wiebe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wiebe.
- Where is Wiebe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wiebe is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wiebe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,754 people named Wiebe in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiebeThe 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, “Wiebe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.