Wurster
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sausagemaker (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Wurster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,154 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 120K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 154K
- NLNetherlands1 in 494K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)
2,154 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sausagemaker
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Wurster is found
(measured from records)Wurster 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,154 | 1 in 154K | 2.2K | Wurster | 124 |
| CH Switzerland | 70 | 1 in 120K | 70 | Wurster | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 44 | 1 in 870K | 22 | Wurster | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 35 | 1 in 494K | 35 | Wurster | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
2,154 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Wurster is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. wurst, mnd. worst „Wurst“; für den Wurstmacher. 1511 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zu Wurst/Wurstmacher; Bearer count nicht angegeben.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- William Wursterb. 1895USAmerican architect (1895–1973)
- Carl Wursterb. 1900DEGerman chemist (1900–1974)
- Jon Wursterb. 1966USAmerican musician
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wurster mean, and where does it come from?
- sausagemaker Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wurster?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Wurster, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wurster. After it come Switzerland, Brazil, Poland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Wurster most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wurster is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 120 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wurster?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,154 people named Wurster in 2010, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wurster?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wursterThe 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, “Wurster” — ranked 13128th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.