Wohler
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈwoʊɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wohler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 456K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 32K
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 Wohler 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Wöhler in DE Germany and Woehler in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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 across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wohler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Wöhler | 64 |
| US United States | 729 | 1 in 456K | 729 | Wohler | 170 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Woehler | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 263 | 1 in 32K | 263 | Wohler | 26 |
| GH Ghana | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Wohler | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 86 | 1 in 39K | 86 | Wohler | 9 |
| IS Iceland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 111K | listed | — | — |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michael Christoph Wohlerb. 1754DEGerman artist, 1754-1802
- Walter Wohlerb. 1893DEDanzig Oberlandesgericht judge
- René Wohlerb. 1922CHbasketball player (1922-2017)
- Jörg-Detlef Wohlerb. 1953DEGerman badminton player
- Anton WohlerCHSwiss historian
- Hunter WohlerAmerican 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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 729 | #31,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 725 | #30,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 679 | #35,638 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 263 | #4,955 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 86 | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Wohler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwoʊɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wohler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Wohler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wöhler.
- Where is Wohler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wohler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wohler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 729 people named Wohler in 2010, about 1 in 456 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wohler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wohlerThe 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, “Wohler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.