Wehnert Surname

205,265th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,022 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Wehnert Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wehnert Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1,6921:47,5806,236
United States1741:2,083,097132,570
Denmark691:81,8077,949
Canada141:2,631,828153,264
Belgium131:884,35769,774
Poland121:3,167,396120,990
Austria111:774,13064,097
Sweden61:1,641,126116,183
Scotland51:1,070,76331,189
Tajikistan41:2,096,6737,416
Australia41:6,748,925181,100
France31:22,140,907385,998
Namibia31:803,13415,170
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
South Africa31:18,059,235248,362
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States121:4,184,890180,076

Wehnert Last Name Facts

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

The surname Wehnert is borne by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wehnert? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 205,265th most commonly occurring last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 3,604,128 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 90 percent of Wehnert live; 85 percent live in Western Europe and 85 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name Wehnert is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 1,692 people, or 1 in 47,580. In Germany Wehnert is most numerous in: Saxony, where 29 percent reside, Bavaria, where 14 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 12 percent reside. Besides Germany this surname occurs in 20 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 9 percent reside and Denmark, where 3 percent reside.

Wehnert Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Wehnert has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Wehnert last name grew 1,450 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Wehnert Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Wehnert surname are 9.59% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 56.36% registered with the party.

The amount Wehnert earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 30.13% more than the national average, earning 450,358 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 42.99% less than the national average, earning R 135,468 per year; in United States they earn 8.22% more than the national average, earning $46,694 USD per year and in Canada they earn 99.71% more than the national average, earning $99,221 CAD per year.

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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
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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 Wehnert
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