Wünsche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname of place-name origin; usually from an ethnonymic Herkunftsname, possibly also from settlement names such as Wünsch/Wündsch/Wunsch(a)/Wünsch (Schlesien)
Wünsche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5Mas Wuensche
- CHSwitzerland1 in 162K
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 Wünsche 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)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wuensche in US United States, CA Canada and Wunsche in IE Ireland, PK Pakistan.
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)
Toponymic surname of place-name origin; usually from an ethnonymic Herkunftsname, possibly also from settlement names such as Wünsch/Wündsch/Wunsch(a)/Wünsch (Schlesien).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wünsche 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 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Wünsche | 73 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Wunsche | 1 |
| US United States | 215as Wuensche | 1 in 1.5M | 215 | Wuensche | 99 |
| BR Brazil | 80 | 1 in 2.6M | 80 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 586K | — | Wuensche | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 52 | 1 in 162K | 52 | Wünsche | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | 39 | 1 in 274K | 39 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Wunsche | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | 1 |
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: the dfa-band-4 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Wünsche 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, Toponymic surname from a place/settlement name; bearers 2014.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- August Wünscheb. 1839DEGerman scholar (1839–1913)
- Friedrich Otto Wünscheb. 1839DEGerman botanist (1839-1905)
- Max Wünscheb. 1914DEGerman SS-Standartenführer, recipient of the Knight's Cross (1914-1995)
- Paul Wünscheb. 1922DEGerman politician
- Kurt Wünscheb. 1929DEGerman politician (1929–2023)
- Raimund Wünscheb. 1944DEarchaeologist
- Eva Maria Wünscheb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Gudrun Wegnerb. 1955DEnot in their usual nameEast German swimmer (1955-2005)
- Florian Wünscheb. 1991DEGerman actor
- Anne Wünscheb. 1991DEGerman film actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 52 | #18,109 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 39 | #35,035 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22 | #21,191 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
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 Wünsche mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname of place-name origin; usually from an ethnonymic Herkunftsname, possibly also from settlement names such as Wünsch/Wündsch/Wunsch(a)/Wünsch (Schlesien). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Wünsche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Wünsche in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wünsche.
- How common is the name Wünsche?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 80 people named Wünsche, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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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, “Wünsche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.