Wiener
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wiener is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.
- USUnited States1 in 64K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 108K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 35K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
5,191 people, 2010
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.
Sources 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(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 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Wiener | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Wiener | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 148 | Wiener | 67 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Wiener | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Wiener | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Wiener | 1 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | 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). 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)
- Christian Wienerb. 1826DEGerman mathematician (1826-1896)
- Otto Wienerb. 1862DEphysicist (1862-1927)
- Leo Wienerb. 1862USAmerican academic (1862–1939)
- 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)
- Jean Wienerb. 1896FRFrench musician (1896–1982)
- Alexander Solomon Wienerb. 1907USAmerican hematologist (1907-1976)
- Oswald Wienerb. 1935ATAustrian writer (1935–2021)
- Élisabeth Wienerb. 1946FRFrench actress
- Scott Wienerb. 1970USAmerican politician (born 1970)
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.2K | #6,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,295 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 148 | #25,866 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- 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.
- What does the name Wiener mean?
- In English, A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.
- In which country does Wiener have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-10.