Waechter
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Waechter is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Liechtenstein it is the 37th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- ATAustria1 in 4.1K◐
- DEGermany1 in 6.1K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.3K ●
- Sources
- 269 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 15 countries
59K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Wachter in US United States, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 18 more and Wächter in FI Finland, NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #443 | 18,133 | 16K rec. | — | — | Wachter | 132 |
| US United States | — | 4,601 | 35K rec. | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Wachter | 269 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,562 | 1.5K rec. | — | listed | Wachter | 39 |
| AT Austria | #252 | 1,559 | 880 rec. | — | — | Wachter | 80 |
| CA Canada | — | 750 | 725 rec. | — | — | Wachter | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | 673 | 639 rec. | — | — | Wachter | 38 |
| CH Switzerland | #828 | 657△ | 250 rec. | 1 in 13K | 657 | Wachter | 35 |
| BR Brazil | — | 510 | 0 rec. | 1 in 415K | 510 | — | 1 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #37 | 292 | 8 rec. | — | 124 | Wachter | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | 236 | 259 rec. | — | — | Wachter | 12 |
| CN China | — | 191 | 201 rec. | — | — | Wachter | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 133 | 201 rec. | 1 in 130K | 133 | Wachter | 30 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English11K50%
- German4.3K20%
- French3.7K17%
- Portuguese1.3K6%
- Spanish3752%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,742 | 50% |
| German | 4,271 | 20% |
| French | 3,653 | 17% |
| Portuguese | 1,300 | 6% |
| Spanish | 375 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 44 |
| 1901 | 94 |
| 1911 | 107 |
| 1921 | 122 |
| 1931 | 108 |
| 1941 | 129 |
| 1951 | 136 |
| 1961 | 139 |
| 1971 | 96 |
| 1981 | 76 |
| 1991 | 80 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Eberhard Wächterb. 1762DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter (1762–1852)
- Karl Georg von Wächterb. 1797DEnot in their usual nameGerman jurist, judge and author (1797-1880)
- Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechterb. 1852DEGerman diplomat and politician (1852–1912)
- Otto Wächterb. 1901ATnot in their usual nameAustrian Nazi lawyer and politician (1901-1949)
- Eberhard Wächterb. 1929ATnot in their usual nameAustrian baritone (1929–1992)
- F. K. Waechterb. 1937DEGerman artist and poet (1937–2005)
- Antoine Waechterb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Veronika Bellmannb. 1960DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (CDU)
- Stefan Wächterb. 1978DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer
- Constanze Wächterb. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,209 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,778 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,281 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 510 | #16,813 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 139 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 129 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 94 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Waechter?
- We estimate roughly 6.3 thousand people bear Waechter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Waechter have the most bearers?
- Waechter is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled wachter.
- How common is Waechter compared with other names?
- In Germany, Waechter is the 443rd most common surname of 734,811 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Waechter” — the 443rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.