Wießner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname: from 'Wiese'/'Wies(e)' or a related place name; bearer count 855+155
Wießner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 878Kas Wiessner
- NLNetherlands1 in 247Kas Wiessner
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wießner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wiessner in US United States, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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 'Wiese'/'Wies(e)' or a related place name; bearer count 855+155.
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)
Wießner 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 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Wießner | 75 |
| US United States | 379as Wiessner | 1 in 878K | 390 | Wiessner | 154 |
| NL Netherlands | 70as Wiessner | 1 in 247K | 70 | Wiessner | 12 |
| GH Ghana | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Wiessner | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 7 | Wiessner | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 25as Wiessner | 1 in 336K | 25 | Wiessner | 10 |
| AT Austria | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Wiessner | 15 |
| IE Ireland | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Wiessner | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Gernot Wießnerb. 1933DEGerman church historian and theologian
- Sven Wiessnerb. 1976DEGerman researcher
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Wießner mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname: from 'Wiese'/'Wies(e)' or a related place name; bearer count 855+155. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Wießner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Wießner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wießner.
- How common is the name Wießner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Wiessner in 2010, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wie%C3%9FnerThe 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, “Wießner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.