The Wiedmann surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 583 people carried this name — #38,050 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted. That is down 2% from 596 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
112 people named Wiedmann live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 78 people named Wiedmann.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 26 people named Wiedmann live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Wiedmann,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johann Heinrich Wiedmann 1766–1792 · writer
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Gebhard Wiedmann 1884–1965 · physicist
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Albert Wiedmann 1901–1970 · physician
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Willy Wiedmann 1929–2013 · writer
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Otti Wiedmann 1935– · mountaineer
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Siegfried K. Wiedmann 1938– · engineer
Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wiedmann.
- Widmer 3,336 · U.S. census
- Wiecek 316 · U.S. census
- Wieczorek 3,354 · U.S. census
- Wiedemann 1,635 · U.S. census
- Wieder 1,645 · U.S. census
- Wiederkehr 368 · U.S. census
- Wiegand 6,004 · U.S. census
- Wiel 105 · U.S. census
- Wieland 5,314 · U.S. census
- Wiener 5,191 · U.S. census
- Wierzbicki 1,639 · U.S. census
- Wies 442 · U.S. census
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