Wilcke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ck-Schreibung im synkopierten Diminutiv; Kurzform zu Rufnamen wie Wilhelm (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/w̝ilce/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Wilcke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 53K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 135K
- DKDenmark1 in 168K
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)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Wilcke
- Spanish:/w̝ilce/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/wilk/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ck-Schreibung im synkopierten Diminutiv; Kurzform zu Rufnamen wie Wilhelm. Bearer count: 5 Types/1.026 Tokens.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where the surname Wilcke is found
(measured from records)Wilcke 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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Wilcke | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | 128 | 1 in 135K | 128 | Wilcke | 13 |
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 131 | Wilcke | 89 |
| BR Brazil | 87 | 1 in 2.4M | 87 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 35 | 1 in 168K | 35 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | Wilcke | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | — | — |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Wilcke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, zu ahd./altniederdt. gēr „Speer“, Rufname Ger-; auch Gercke
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Johan Carl Wilckeb. 1732SESwedish physicist (1732-1796)
- Wolf-Dietrich Wilckeb. 1913PLGerman officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913–1944)
- Claus Wilckeb. 1939DEGerman actor
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Wilcke?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /w̝ilce/; in Portuguese /wilk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Wilcke mean?
- Recorded meaning: ck-Schreibung im synkopierten Diminutiv; Kurzform zu Rufnamen wie Wilhelm.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wilcke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Wilcke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilcke. After it come Netherlands, United States, Brazil and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wilcke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 128 people named Wilcke in 2007, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilckeThe 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, “Wilcke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.