Wieser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling/landscape term; from mnd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwisɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wieser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K
- USUnited States1 in 212K
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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling/landscape term; from mnd. wisere 'Weiser, Vorzeiger'. Bearer count: 2067.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wieser 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #55 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Wieser | 119 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wieser | 139 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Wieser | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,568 | 1 in 212K | 1.7K | Wieser | 154 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Wieser | 39 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 741 | 1 in 11K | 741 | Wieser | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 223 | 1 in 77K | 223 | Wieser | 21 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Wieser 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, Toponymic surname from a place/landscape feature: 'Wieser' = one from/at the meadow. Bearer count: 3776.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname aus einem Flurnamen/Ort mit Wies(e) 'Wiese, Grasland'; Bearer count: 3251.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname zu Wiese; v.a. südl. der Donau, Komposita auf -wieser im Rhein-Main-Neckar-Gebiet und ebenfalls südl. der Donau.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Friedrich von Wieserb. 1851ATAustrian economist (1851-1926)
- Gustav Wieserb. 1898ATAssociation footballer (1898-1960)
- Franz Wieserb. 1941DEGerman politician
- Thomas Wieserb. 1954ATAustrian economist
- Roland Wieserb. 1956DEEast German athlete
- Marek Wieserb. 1962PLPolish cinematographer
- Oliver Wieserb. 1973ATAustrian politician
- Vitus Wieserb. 1977ATAustrian actor
- Dino Wieserb. 1989CHSwiss ice hockey player
- Sandro Wieserb. 1993LILiechtensteiner footballer
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 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,839 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 741 | #1,670 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 223 | #9,362 |
| 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 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
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 Wieser come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling/landscape term; from mnd. wisere 'Weiser, Vorzeiger'. Bearer count: 2067. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Wieser?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwisɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wieser mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling/landscape term; from mnd.
- In which country does Wieser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Wieser in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wieser.
- How common is the name Wieser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,568 people named Wieser in 2010, about 1 in 212 thousand residents.
- How common is Wieser compared with other names?
- In Austria, Wieser is the 55th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wieserThe 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, “Wieser” — the 55th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.