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

Wehnert is most common in Germany. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Wehnert.

How Common Is The Last Name Wehnert? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 205,265th most frequently used surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 3,604,128 people. The last name Wehnert occurs mostly in Europe, where 90 percent of Wehnert reside; 85 percent reside in Western Europe and 85 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The surname Wehnert is most widely held in Germany, where it is held by 1,692 people, or 1 in 47,580. In Germany it is primarily concentrated in: Saxony, where 29 percent live, Bavaria, where 14 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 12 percent live. Excluding Germany Wehnert exists in 20 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 9 percent live and Denmark, where 3 percent live.

Wehnert Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Wehnert has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 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 with the Republican Party than the national 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
  • 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 Wehnert
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