Wunder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: miracle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈvʊndɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Wunder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 28Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 110Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
(measured from records)miracle
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wunder 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 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Wunder | 131 |
| US United States | 2,393 | 1 in 139K | 2.4K | Wunder | 266 |
| BR Brazil | 423 | 1 in 501K | 423 | Wunder | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 181K | 15 | Wunder | 29 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Wunder | 36 |
| AT Austria | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Wunder | 28 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Wunder | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Wunder | 2 |
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; 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). 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)Wunder is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In stq, wonder; miracle
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)- Eduard Wunderb. 1800DEGerman rector (1800-1869)
- Karl Friedrich Wunderb. 1849DEGerman photographer and publisher (1849–1924)
- Gerd Wunderb. 1908DEGerman librarian and regional historian (1908–1988)
- George Wunderb. 1912USAmerican comics artist (1912–1987)
- Gottfried Wunderb. 1912ATAustrian politician
- Heide Wunderb. 1939DEGerman historian of the modern age
- Klaus Wunderb. 1950DEGerman footballer (1950-2024)
- Gustavo Buenob. 1951PEnot in their usual namePeruvian actor
- Dietmar Wunderb. 1965DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Ingolf Wunderb. 1985ATAustrian pianist (born 1985)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,254 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 423 | #19,769 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 15 | #109,436 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Wunder mean, and where does it come from?
- miracle Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Wunder?
- In German /ˈvʊndɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Wunder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Wunder in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wunder.
- How common is the name Wunder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,393 people named Wunder in 2010, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wunderThe 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, “Wunder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.