Weber
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one s
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/veɪbɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Weber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 411(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 419
- ATAustria≈1 in 895
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)
- #728 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 515 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 411 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, 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)A textile producer, a new family name like Becker, Flei- scher, or Breuer.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Weber is read
(measured from records)Weber is one spelling over 2 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.
- English60%
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German21%
weaver
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
agent noun of weben
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Deutscher Berufsname: ‘Weber’ (Beruf des Webers/Handwerkers); Varianten und Nebenformen der Typenreihe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)Weber 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #6 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 411 | listed | Weber | 272 |
| US United States | #252 | 109,433 | 1 in 3K | 109K | Weber | 515 |
| CH Switzerland | #8 | 20,065 | 1 in 419 | 20K | Weber | 148 |
| FR France | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 2.1K | — | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | #569 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1.4K | Weber | 172 |
| AT Austria | #20 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 895 | — | Weber | 139 |
| LU Luxembourg | #888 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 578 | 4.9K | Weber | 44 |
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; the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Weber 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.
A textile producer, a new family name like Becker, Flei- scher, or Breuer.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In French, Unité physique de flux d’induction magnétique (symbole Wb). Vient du nom du physicien allemand Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891) qui donna en 1846 la loi concernant les forces exercées par les particules électrisées en mouvement.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)- Constanze Mozartb. 1762DEnot in their usual nameAustrian singer
- Carl Maria von Weberb. 1786DEGerman Romantic composer (1786–1826)
- Wilhelm Eduard Weberb. 1804DEGerman physicist (1804–1891)
- Heinrich Weberb. 1842DEGerman mathematician (1842–1913)
- Heinrich Friedrich Weberb. 1843CHSwiss physicist (1843-1912)
- Max Weberb. 1864DEGerman sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
- Steven Weberb. 1961USAmerican actor (1961-)
- Mary Ellen Weberb. 1962USAmerican astronaut
- Manfred Weberb. 1972DEGerman politician
- Charlie Weberb. 1978USAmerican actor
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)58 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109K | #283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108K | #252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106K | #290 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20K | #5 |
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 4.9K | #3 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.1K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.4K | #4,910 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 10
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Weber come from?
- A textile producer, a new family name like Becker, Flei- scher, or Breuer. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What are other forms of the name Weber?
- In the etymology graph, Weaver is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Weber?
- A machine transcription gives /veɪbɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Weber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 195 thousand people named Weber in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weber.
- What does the name Weber mean?
- In English, In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one s…
- How common is the name Weber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 109,433 people named Weber in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Weber compared with other names?
- In Germany, Weber is the 6th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weberThe 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, “Weber” — the 6th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.