Wilker
given name · Latin script
Meaning: with umlaut from a place-name or from Wille/Wilk- stem
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wilkɛɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilker is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In São Tomé & Príncipe it is the 13th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 31K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 52K
- PEPeru≈1 in 113K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,838 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
São Tomé & Príncipe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
with umlaut from a place-name or from Wille/Wilk- stem
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 6,838 | 1 in 31K | 6.8K | Wilker | 100 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Wilker | 5 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 552 | 1 in 52K | 552 | Wilker | 29 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Wilker | 26 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Wilker | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 79 | 1 in 43K | 79 | Wilker | 9 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | #13 | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Wilker | 3 |
6,838 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Wilker is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, man from the Wilke farm; -er from a place/farm name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Patronymisch zu Wilke oder zu einem Rufnamen mit gēr „Speer“; 366 Träger.
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)
- Hermann Wilkerb. 1874DEGerman rower (1874-1941)
- Gertrud Wilkerb. 1924CHSwiss writer (1924-1984)
- José Wilkerb. 1944BRBrazilian actor (1944–2014)
- Antonia WilkerDEGerman association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,880 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Wilker mean, and where does it come from?
- with umlaut from a place-name or from Wille/Wilk- stem Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Wilker?
- A machine transcription gives /wilkɛɾ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Wilker a male or female name?
- Wilker is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Wilker have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Wilker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilker.
- How common is the name Wilker?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,838 people named Wilker in 2022, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Wilker compared with other names?
- In São Tomé & Príncipe, Wilker is the 13th most common given name of 46 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wilker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilkerThe 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, “Wilker” — the 13th most common given name in São Tomé & Príncipe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.