Wilmsen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from Wilm/Wilhelm with -sen suffix
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/wilmsẽ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Wilmsen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
- BEBelgium
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)Patronymic from Wilm/Wilhelm with -sen suffix. 356 bearers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Wilmsen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymic from Wilm; -s- + -en formation (type -sen).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Kurzform-Patronym mit Suffix -sen; zu Wil(m)-/Wilhelm. 339 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, patronymisch zu Wilhelm/Willem
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymisch zu Willem/Wilhelm
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)- Friedrich Philipp Wilmsenb. 1770DEGerman theologian (1770-1831)
- Max Wilmsenb. 1885DEGerman actor (1885–1953)
- Christoph Wilmsen-Wiegmannb. 1956DEGerman sculptor
- Lars Wilmsenb. 1993DEGerman volleyball 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)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 463 | #4,217 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 371 | #22,140 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 283 | #6,124 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 275 | #6,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147 | #118,185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #62,280 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #402,921 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Wilmsen come from?
- Patronymic from Wilm/Wilhelm with -sen suffix. 356 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Wilmsen?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /wilmsẽ/; in Dutch /ʋɪlm.sə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Wilmsen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic from Wilm/Wilhelm with -sen suffix.
- In which country does Wilmsen have the most bearers?
- Wilmsen 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/wilmsenThe 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, “Wilmsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.