Wyman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval male personal name Wymund, from Old English Wigmund, literally 'war-protection'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwaɪmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wyman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 30K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 74K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
11,051 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the medieval male personal name Wymund, from Old English Wigmund, literally 'war-protection'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wyman 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 | 11,051 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Wyman | 26 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 6 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
11,051 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Wyman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE Wlgmund, 'battle-protection'; first attested Wimundus 1066 DB (Norfolk). In Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Norfolk may reflect ON Vigmundr / ODa / OSw Vimund
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Wigmund (composed of the elements wig war + mund pro¬ tection), reinforced by the cogn. ON form Vigmundr, introduced by Scandinavian settlers in N England. Vars.: Wurst(n)er, Wurstler (agent derivs.). Vars.: Wymann, Whyman(t), W(h)ayman, Whaymand, Whaymond, W(h)aymont, Whamond, Weyman, Weymont. Dim.: Ger.: Wurstl(e). Patr.: Wymans Wiirth see Wirth
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Jane, US actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, alternative form of womman
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)
- Jane Wymanb. 1917USAmerican actress (1917–2007)
- Louis C. Wymanb. 1917USAmerican politician (1917-2002)
- Irma Wymanb. 1928USAmerican computer scientist (1928–2015)
- Bill Wymanb. 1936GBBritish musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
- Nick Wymanb. 1950USAmerican actor
- Brad Wymanb. 1963USAmerican film producer (born 1963)
- Oliver Wymanb. 1966USAmerican voice actor
- J. H. Wymanb. 1967CACanadian actor
- Broey Deschanelb. 1996CAnot in their usual nameYouTuber and channel about pop culture and film analysis
- Ernest Wymanfirst husband of actress Jane Wyman
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,997 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,300 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #79,071 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #189,040 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #403,650 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #276,950 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,030 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Wyman mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval male personal name Wymund, from Old English Wigmund, literally 'war-protection'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wyman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Wyman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wyman.
- Where is Wyman most common?
- Wyman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Wyman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwaɪmən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Wyman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,051 people named Wyman in 2010, about 1 in 30 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/wymanThe 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, “Wyman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.