Weaver
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) 'person who weaves cloth'; (ii) 'person from Weaver Hall', Cheshire; (iii) translation of Weber
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wivɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Weaver is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 46th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.4K
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #734 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 537 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈630,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(i) 'person who weaves cloth'; (ii) 'person from Weaver Hall', Cheshire; (iii) translation of Weber.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Weaver, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weaver 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈630,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Weaver | 17 |
| US United States | #203 | 143,837 | 1 in 2.3K | 144K | Weaver | 537 |
| GB United Kingdom | #259 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 14K | Weaver | 229 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Weaver | 9 |
| IT Italy | #405 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Weaver | 22 |
| IE Ireland | #235 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Weaver | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | #218 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Weaver | 77 |
| JM Jamaica | #46 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Weaver | 5 |
| AX Åland Islands | #99 | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Weaver | 4 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Weaver is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Sigourney, entertainer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, fe-mo, fele-mo
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- Robert C. Weaverb. 1907USMember of the United States Cabinet (1907-1997)
- Sylvester Weaverb. 1908USAmerican television executive (1908–2002)
- Dennis Weaverb. 1924USAmerican actor (1924–2006)
- Fritz Weaverb. 1926USAmerican actor (1926-2016)
- Jacki Weaverb. 1947AUAustralian actress
- Sigourney Weaverb. 1949USAmerican actress (born 1949)
- Blayne Weaverb. 1976USAmerican actor
- Jason Weaverb. 1979USAmerican actor and singer
- Al Weaverb. 1981GBEnglish actor
- Samantha Saintb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
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)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 144K | #192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 141K | #195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139K | #179 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14K | #509 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Weaver?
- A machine transcription gives /wivɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Weaver mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) 'person who weaves cloth'; (ii) 'person from Weaver Hall', Cheshire; (iii) translation of Weber. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Weaver?
- In the etymology graph, Weber is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Weaver have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 632 thousand people named Weaver in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weaver.
- How common is the name Weaver?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143,837 people named Weaver in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Weaver compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Weaver is the 46th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weaverThe 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, “Weaver” — the 46th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.