Wirt

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in German: host, innkeeper

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/wɝt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wirt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 140K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 461K
  • CZCzechia1 in 823K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,382 people, 2010

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

host, innkeeper

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Wirt is read(measured from records)

Wirt is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English82%

    county, WV; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • German7.2%

    host, innkeeper

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

    pubkeeper; innkeeper

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Occupational surname: innkeeper/host.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wirt 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.

Where Wirt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,3821 in 140K2.4KWirt35
PL Poland831 in 461K43——
BR Brazil521 in 4.1M52Wirt6
CZ Czechia131 in 823K14——
BE Belgium51 in 2.3M5——
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1

2,382 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Wirt 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 Maltese, inheritance; legacy (that which is bequeathed and inherited)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In gmh, second-person singular present imperative of wërden

    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)

1700180019002000William Wirt, b. 1772Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt, b. 1784John S. Wirt, b. 1851William Albert Wirt, b. 1874George H. Wirt, b. 1880Václav Wirt, b. 1893Mildred Wirt Benson, b. 1905Daniel Wirt, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Wirt,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Wirt
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.4K#12,904
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.2K#12,667
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,205
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—52#102,017
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202643—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—43#56,058
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202640—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—40#58,348
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—14#17,002
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—13#70,214
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#98,691

Reference works 4

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 Wirt mean, and where does it come from?
host, innkeeper Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
How do you pronounce Wirt?
A machine transcription gives /wɝt/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Wirt have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Wirt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wirt.
Where is Wirt most common?
Wirt is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 140 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Wirt?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,382 people named Wirt in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.

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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, “Wirt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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