Wiener
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwiːnə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Wiener is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 33Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 37Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
5,191 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname derived from Vienna; borne by 974.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wiener is read
(measured from records)Wiener is one spelling over 2 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.
- English77%
A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
‘Person from Vienna’, Austria (German Wien).
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Norbert, US founder of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German9.0%
Toponymic surname derived from Vienna; borne by 974.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Viennese
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
An inhabitant of Vienna
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 the surname Wiener is found
(measured from records)Wiener 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 | 5,191 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Wiener | 352 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 148 | Wiener | 67 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Wiener | 26 |
| CA Canada | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Wiener | 66 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Wiener | 51 |
| SG Singapore | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Wiener | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | 117 | 1 in 91K | 118 | — | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Wiener | 1 |
5,191 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Otto Wienerb. 1862DEphysicist (1862-1927)
- Francis de Croissetb. 1877BEnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1877-1937)
- Norbert Vinerb. 1894USnot in their usual nameAmerican mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Wiener come from?
- Toponymic surname derived from Vienna; borne by 974. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Wiener?
- In English /ˈwiːnə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Wiener mean?
- In English, A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wiener?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Wiener, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wiener. After it come United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wiener?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,191 people named Wiener in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wiener?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wienerThe 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, “Wiener”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.