Wileman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hunter, or nickname for a devious person, from ME wile trap, snare (late OE wtl contrivance, trick, possibly of Scandinavian origin) + man man (OE manri)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈwaɪɫmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wileman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)hunter, or nickname for a devious person, from ME wile trap, snare (late OE wtl contrivance, trick, possibly of Scandinavian origin) + man man (OE manri).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Wileman 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 English, A surname originating as an occupation.
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)- Alfred Ernest Wilemanb. 1860GBBritish diplomat and entomologist
- Jonathan Wilemanb. 1970GBcricketer (born 1970)
- Chase Wilemanb. 1986USAmerican soccer player
- Julie WilemanGBarchaeologist
- Thomas WilemanGBresearcher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.9K | #3,932 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 875 | #26,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 856 | #29,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 735 | #31,482 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #131,575 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #413,259 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Wileman mean, and where does it come from?
- hunter, or nickname for a devious person, from ME wile trap, snare (late OE wtl contrivance, trick, possibly of Scandinavian origin) + man man (OE manri). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Wileman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwaɪɫmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wileman have the most bearers?
- Wileman is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilemanThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wileman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.