Weidlich
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from mhd. weidenlich 'huntsman-like, stately'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Weidlich is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from mhd. weidenlich 'huntsman-like, stately'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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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)Weidlich is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, trait surname: lively/fresh, often explained as graceful or pleasant; bearer count not printed on this line
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, hearty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Zu mhd. weide(n)lich, mnd. weidelik/wēdelik 'waidgerecht; frisch, tüchtig, stattlich'; -lich-Suffix. Bearer count: 2092. Morphology: deadjektivisches -lich.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Toponymischer Familienname; ÜberN zu mhd. weide(n)lich 'waidgerecht; frisch, tüchtig, stattlich'. Beleg: 1661.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Übername mit Suffix -lich; südwestdt. Belege beruhen auf Waidelich, im Vogtland auf Weidlich. Morphologisch: lautlicher Wechsel Waid-/Weid- im -lich-Typ.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Christoph Weidlichb. 1713DEGerman lawyer
- Joseph Ignaz Weidlichb. 1744CZBohemian painter
- Emanuel Weidlichb. 1907CZHolocaust victim (born 1907)
- Hans Adolf Weidlichb. 1909DEGerman chemist, jurist, and philatelist (1909–1988)
- Wolfgang Weidlichb. 1928DEGerman publisher
- Wolfgang Weidlichb. 1931DEGerman physicist (1931-2015)
- Michael Weidlichb. 1955DEGerman entomologist
- Volker Weidlichb. 1958DEGerman film actor and stage actor
- Alina Weidlichb. 1988DEGerman flautist
- E. Weidlichbotanist
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 398 | #52,169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 385 | #50,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 361 | #60,295 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 167 | #42,527 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 41 | #21,670 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 34 | #38,393 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 34 | #12,669 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29 | #17,227 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #67,064 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #138,665 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Weidlich mean, and where does it come from?
- from mhd. weidenlich 'huntsman-like, stately' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Weidlich have the most bearers?
- Weidlich is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weidlichThe 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
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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, “Weidlich”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.