Weil
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: because (A Frequency Dictionary of German)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Weil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Weil is also written ไวล์แอล in Thai.
- FRFrance≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 32Kfew records
- ILIsrael≈1 in 36Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Weil in other scripts: Thai
(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)From Weil near Basel on the Rhine, since 1300 in south Baden.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
How Weil is read
(measured from records)Weil 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.
- English69%
Simone, French writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German9.0%
because
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
because, given that
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Toponymischer Familienname: zu Orts- und Siedlungsnamen wie Weil; Bearer count 2549.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
- French8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Weil in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Weil is found
(measured from records)Weil 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Weil | 2 |
| US United States | 6,455 | 1 in 52K | 6.5K | Weil | 381 |
| FR France | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 211 | — | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 270 | Weil | 96 |
| CA Canada | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Weil | 78 |
| IL Israel | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Weil | 40 |
| CH Switzerland | 228 | 1 in 37K | 228 | — | 22 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Weil 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.
From Weil near Basel on the Rhine, since 1300 in south Baden.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Weil is an old place of origin, in Breisgau since 1805, in Ihrin- gen, Emmendingen area, in the district of Upper Rhine in Baden, in Altdorf too, Diersburg, Ittlingen, in Gochsheim, Bretten area in Middle Rhine 1827 and in Murg/Pfinzkreis. Wyler comes from the town of Weil am Rhine, and Weil exists in the whole of Baden; since 1700 in Kippenheim and Frie- senheim.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
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)- André Weilb. 1906FRFrench mathematician (1906-1998)
- Simone Weilb. 1909FRFrench philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
- Liza Weilb. 1977USAmerican 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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Weil come from?
- From Weil near Basel on the Rhine, since 1300 in south Baden. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Weil?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Weil in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weil. After it come United States, France, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Weil?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,455 people named Weil in 2010, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
- What does the name Weil mean?
- In German, because
What do you want to know about Weil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weilThe 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, “Weil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.