Wies
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature based on ‘Wies’ ‘meadow’; bearer/token counts: Wies 441, Inder- 71, Inter- 61, De- 49, Schlei- 35, Valt- 31, Seggewies 30, Opwis 29, Scharwies 29
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wies is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature based on ‘Wies’ ‘meadow’; bearer/token counts: Wies 441, Inder- 71, Inter- 61, De- 49, Schlei- 35, Valt- 31, Seggewies 30, Opwis 29, Scharwies 29.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wies counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 2 | Wies | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1.2K | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 517 | — | 15 |
| AR Argentina | — | 38 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 12 | — | 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wies is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from a place/landscape feature: 'wies' = meadow. Bearer count: 776.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname zu Wiese; Verbreitung u.a. 487 Stadtlohn 1,43‰/40 Tokens, 978 Wertheim 0,81‰/28 Tokens, 636 Büdingen 0,72‰/40 Tokens, 977 Karlstadt 0,68‰/32 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In jam, waist (part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, first/third-person singular preterite of weisen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-cfr, white, reflecting most or all light
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)
- Wies Moensb. 1898BEhistorian, pamphleteer, poet (1898–1982)
- Wies Pelemanb. 1922BEBelgian sculptor, painter, draftsman, illustrator, jewelry designer (1922-1995)
- Wies Stael-Merkxb. 1926NLDutch activist
- Wies van Dongenb. 1931NLDutch bicycle racer and track cyclist (1931-2022)
- Wies van Moorselb. 1935NLDutch author (1935-2024)
- Wies Andersenb. 1936BEBelgian film director, actor and journalist (1936–2023)
- Wies Borreb. 1949BEBelgian writer
- Wies van Dongenb. 1957NLDutch bicycle racer (1957-)
- Gerhard Wiesb. 1961DEGerman Paralympian
- Wies Bekhuisb. 2001Dutch volleyball and beach volleyball player
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 517 | #44,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 442 | #47,878 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 62 | #26,948 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 38 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #63,719 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #413,090 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Wies mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature based on ‘Wies’ ‘meadow’; bearer/token counts: Wies 441, Inder- 71, Inter- 61, De- 49, Schlei- 35, Valt- 31, Seggewies 30, Opwis 29, Scharwies 29. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Wies have the most bearers?
- Wies is most frequently recorded in Poland, where it is most often spelled wies.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiesThe 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, “Wies”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.