Wunsch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wish
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwənʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wunsch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 208K
- ATAustria≈1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wuensch in BR Brazil.
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)
wish
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wunsch 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 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Wunsch | 135 |
| US United States | — | 1,598 | 1 in 208K | 1.6K | Wunsch | 231 |
| ML Mali | #341 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wunsch | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 751 | 1 in 282K | 751 | Wuensch | 19 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wunsch | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 149 | 1 in 23K | 149 | Wunsch | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 81 | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wunsch 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 German, wish (an act of wishing)
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)
- Johann Jakob von Wunschb. 1717DEPrussian general
- Harry Wunschb. 1910USAmerican football player (1910-1954)
- Carl Wunschb. 1941USAmerican oceanographer
- Pierre Wunschb. 1967BEBelgian economist
- Noah Wunschb. 1970DEGerman artist
- Jared Wunschb. 1971USAmerican mathematics professor
- Jerry Wunschb. 1974USAmerican football player
- Sacha Wunsch-Vincentb. 1976CHeconomist and researcher
- Nicholas Wunschb. 2000ATAustrian association football player
- Olivia Wunschb. 2006AUAustralian swimmer
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,488 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 751 | #11,869 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 149 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 81 | #15,161 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 46 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wunsch mean, and where does it come from?
- wish Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Wunsch?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwənʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wunsch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Wunsch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wunsch.
- How common is the name Wunsch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,598 people named Wunsch in 2010, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
- How common is Wunsch compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wunsch is the 705th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wunschThe 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, “Wunsch” — the 705th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.