Wagener
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Surname map of vowel variation a/e (plate title also ä): Wagener mainly in PLZ 57 Siegen and 34 Kassel; Wog(e)ner 6+2, Wagler 396, Wegler 102
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Wagener is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 86th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 77K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 195K
- USUnited States1 in 204K
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 Wagener itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,627 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Surname map of vowel variation a/e (plate title also ä): Wagener mainly in PLZ 57 Siegen and 34 Kassel; Wog(e)ner 6+2, Wagler 396, Wegler 102.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wagener 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 | — | 1,627 | 1 in 204K | 1.7K | Wagener | 160 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 440 | 1 in 39K | 440 | Wagener | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 358 | 1 in 33K | 358 | Wagener | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 113 | 1 in 402K | 113 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 89 | 1 in 562K | 89 | Wagener | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 76 | 1 in 77K | 76 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 57 | 1 in 147K | 57 | Wagener | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 1 |
| LU Luxembourg | #86 | — | — | 864 | Wagener | 25 |
1,627 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 2020; Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Wagener is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Variante des Berufsnamens Wagner; die Karte zeigt Monophthongvarianz a/ä/e. 3852 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. wagener ‚Wagenbauer, Fuhrmann‘; mit -e-. 3,852 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagenerb. 1782DEGerman banker and patron of the arts
- Hermann Wagenerb. 1815DEGerman politician (1815-1889)
- Gottfried Wagenerb. 1831FRGerman chemist (1831–1892)
- Otto Wagenerb. 1888DEGerman general (1888-1971)
- Hilde Wagenerb. 1904DEGerman actress (1904–1992)
- Michael Wagenerb. 1949DEGerman record producer
- Catherine Wagenerb. 1952FRFrench actress
- Ana Wagenerb. 1962ESSpanish actress
- Renée Wagenerb. 1962LULuxembourgian politician and journalist
- Maximilian Wagenerb. 1995DEGerman footballer
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,359 |
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 864 | #53 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 440 | #4,496 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 358 | #4,484 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 330 | #5,049 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 113 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 89 | #29,952 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 89 | #29,771 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 76 | #7,089 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 57 | #16,859 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Wagener mean, and where does it come from?
- Surname map of vowel variation a/e (plate title also ä): Wagener mainly in PLZ 57 Siegen and 34 Kassel; Wog(e)ner 6+2, Wagler 396, Wegler 102. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- In which country does Wagener have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Wagener, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wagener.
- Where is Wagener most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wagener is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wagener?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,627 people named Wagener in 2010, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.
- How common is Wagener compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Wagener is the 86th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wagenerThe 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, “Wagener” — the 86th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.