Wieder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: again
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wieder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 202K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 6.5Kas וידר
- ATAustria≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wieder itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named וידר, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled וידר in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 2 more and Vider in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
again
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wieder 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #776 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | וידר | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Vider | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,645 | 1 in 202K | 2.1K | Wieder | 247 |
| IL Israel | #894 | 1,341as וידר | 1 in 6.5K | 1.3K | וידר | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 535as Wider | 1 in 16K | 535 | Wieder | 6 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | וידר | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | וידר | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 194as Weider | 1 in 28K | 194 | וידר | 2 |
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 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Wieder is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, again; indicates that the action taking place has happened before
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from ON Wieda; also from Wid- / Withar
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Luxembourgish, weather
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)
- Ludwig Wiederb. 1900DEAssociation footballer (1900-1977)
- Joshua Wiederb. 1906HUhazzan (1906-1963)
- H. H. Wiederb. 1919USRomanian-born American physicist (1919-2018)
- Hanne Wiederb. 1925DEGerman television and film actress (1925-1990)
- Theo Wiederb. 1955DEGerman politician and judge
- Florian Wiederb. 1968DEGerman designer
- Jeremy Wiederb. 1971USAmerican rabbi
- Ebba Wiederb. 1998SESwedish association football player
- Verena Wiederb. 2000DEassociation football player
- Jim WiederUStelevision journalist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,216 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,879 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wieder mean, and where does it come from?
- again Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- What are other forms of the name Wieder?
- In the etymology graph, Wither is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wieder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named וידר in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wieder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,645 people named Wieder in 2010, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
- How common is Wieder compared with other names?
- In Romania, Wieder is the 776th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiederThe 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, “Wieder” — the 776th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.