Wuensch
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Wuensch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 12Kfew recordsas Wunsch(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 14Kas Wunsch
- UYUruguay1 in 23Kas Wunsch
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 Wuensch 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
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 named Wunsch, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est., as Wunsch
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Wuensch in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Wunsch in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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.
Where the surname Wuensch is found
(measured from records)Wuensch 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 | #705 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Wunsch | 135 |
| US United States | — | 1,598as Wunsch | 1 in 208K | 1.6K | Wunsch | 231 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Wunsch | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 751as Wunsch | 1 in 282K | 751 | Wuensch | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 18 | Wunsch | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 149as Wunsch | 1 in 23K | 149 | Wunsch | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 112as Wünsch | 1 in 96K | 112 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 81as Wunsch | 1 in 69K | 81 | Wunsch | 4 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-4 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Gerhard Wuenschb. 1925CAAustrian-Canadian composer, musicologist, and pianist
- Daniela Wuenschb. 1960DEGerman mathematician and historian of mathematics
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wuensch?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Wunsch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Austria, Brazil and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wuensch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,598 people named Wunsch in 2010, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
- How common is Wuensch compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wuensch is the 705th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wuensch?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wuenschThe 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, “Wuensch” — the 705th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.