Wegmüller Surname

181,156th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,350 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Switzerland
Highest density in:
Switzerland

Wegmüller Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Wegmüller Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Switzerland2,3281:3,528475
Germany141:5,750,390205,224
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
England11:55,718,059489,080
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
France11:66,422,722504,397
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:12,554,671503,821

The alternate forms: Wegmuller (406) are calculated separately.

Wegmüller Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wegmüller Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Wegmüller is more commonly found in Switzerland than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant: Wegmuller. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Wegmüller? popularity and diffusion

Wegmüller is the 181,156th most frequently occurring last name globally, held by around 1 in 3,101,083 people. The surname Wegmüller occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Wegmüller are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 91 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The surname Wegmüller is most frequent in Switzerland, where it is borne by 2,328 people, or 1 in 3,528. In Switzerland it is most common in: Canton of Bern, where 54 percent live, Canton of Zürich, where 13 percent live and Canton of Aargau, where 7 percent live. Aside from Switzerland Wegmüller is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 1 percent live and Brazil, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wegmuller96406/
Weigmüller9534/
Wegmller9417/
Wagmüller8984/
Wegmiller8974/
Vegmüller891/
Wegmueller84125/
Weighmiller801/
Wagmiller7822/
Wagmueller742/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Wegmüller
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