Woess
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Woess is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 20Kfew recordsas Wöss
- PLPoland1 in 617Kas Woss
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Woess itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 927K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 named Wöss, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Woess in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Woss in US United States, SE Sweden, Wöss in AT Austria and Wöß in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Woess is found
(measured from records)Woess 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #945 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Wöss | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 185as Woss | 1 in 1.1M | 185 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 130as Woss | 1 in 2.6M | 135 | Woss | 98 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 784K | — | Wöß | 24 |
| PL Poland | — | 62as Woss | 1 in 617K | 35 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16as Woss | 1 in 638K | 16 | Woss | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7as Woss | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 927K | — | Woess | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | Woess | 3 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Woess?
- Mondonomo estimates about 458 people named Wöss in Austria, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, United States, Germany and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Woess?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Woess in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
- How common is Woess compared with other names?
- In Austria, Woess is the 945th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Woess?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/woessThe 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, “Woess” — the 945th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.