Wiese
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from Wiese 'meadow'; variants include Wiesener, Wisenmuller, Wysener, Wiß(e)ner, Wissener, Wysenmüller, Wisemuller; no bearer count printed
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wiese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 10K
- CACanada≈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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 395 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from Wiese 'meadow'; variants include Wiesener, Wisenmuller, Wysener, Wiß(e)ner, Wissener, Wysenmüller, Wisemuller; no bearer count printed.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wiese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #324 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Wiese | 175 |
| US United States | — | 9,287 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Wiese | 395 |
| ZA South Africa | #986 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Wiese | 59 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Wiese | 89 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Wiese | 1 |
| DK Denmark | #911 | 549 | 1 in 11K | 549 | Wiese | 68 |
| NO Norway | — | 396 | 1 in 14K | 396 | Wiese | 19 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Wiese | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Wiese 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/dwelling feature based on ‘Wiese’ ‘meadow’; bearer/token counts: Wiese 7580, Schönwiese 81.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from Wiese ‘meadow’; origin from a meadow place or dwelling site. Bearer count not given.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a place/landscape feature: 'wiese' = meadow. Bearer count: 7661.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, from nd. wisdi(e), wese 'meadow'; also from related place and field names
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, meadow
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
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)
- Leopold von Wieseb. 1876DEGerman sociologist and economist (1876-1969)
- Friedrich Wieseb. 1892DEGerman general and Knight's Cross recipient
- Klaus Wieseb. 1942DEmusician (1942–2009)
- Heinz Wieseb. 1945DEGerman politician (1945-)
- Irina von Wieseb. 1967DEliberal politician (born 1967)
- Carina Wieseb. 1970DEGerman actress
- Erik Wieseb. 1974USAmerican animator
- John Wieseb. 1977USAmerican noise musician
- Tim Wieseb. 1981DEGerman footballer
- Dirk Wieseb. 1983DEGerman politician
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.3K | #3,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.2K | #3,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.8K | #3,925 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 549 | #767 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 396 | #3,676 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Wiese mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from Wiese 'meadow'; variants include Wiesener, Wisenmuller, Wysener, Wiß(e)ner, Wissener, Wysenmüller, Wisemuller; no bearer count printed. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Wiese?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwiz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wiese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Wiese in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wiese.
- How common is the name Wiese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,287 people named Wiese in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Wiese compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wiese is the 324th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wieseThe 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, “Wiese” — the 324th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.