We
org · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ma, mu, wua; neg. ma, me, mu, we not, can or will not; me and we, affirm. = we say, that. Mu-viuli, our- selves, we ourselves
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
We is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 984K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K
- ATAustria≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ma, mu, wua; neg. ma, me, mu, we not, can or will not; me and we, affirm. = we say, that. Mu-viuli, our- selves, we ourselves
Cited for this meaning 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How We is read
(measured from records)We is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English68%
ma, mu, wua; neg. ma, me, mu, we not, can or will not; me and we, affirm. = we say, that. Mu-viuli, our- selves, we ourselves
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Two or more people including or consisting of the speaker(s)/writer(s).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese21%
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喂
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Dignified (appearance)
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Conduct (noun)
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
- Portuguese6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses We in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)We 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.
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)We 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 Spanish, dude, guy, buddy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Sang-Kyu Wieb. 1926KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean military flight engineer
- Wi Sung Lacb. 1954KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean former diplomat, politician
- Wi Gi-cheolb. 1961KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Wi Seong-gonb. 1968KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Wie Sung-Woob. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean basketball player (1971-)
- Wi Ji-woongb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and model
- Wi Ha-junb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Wi Taewoongb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
- Wi Seo-yeongb. 2005KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
- Wui Hye-deokKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 466 | #48,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 338 | #59,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 316 | #59,769 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 279 | #28,110 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 We mean, and where does it come from?
- ma, mu, wua; neg. ma, me, mu, we not, can or will not; me and we, affirm. = we say, that. Mu-viuli, our- selves, we ourselves Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
- In which country does We have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named We in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled we.
- How common is the name We?
- In the United States, the national register counted 338 people named We in 2010, about 1 in 984 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weThe 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, “We”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.