The Wuest surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,711 people carried this name — #15,676 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 158,700 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
1,315 people named Wuest live in Switzerland.
They live in 21 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Lucerne.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 113 people named Wuest.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Haut-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 Belgium’s population register
At least 22 people named Wuest live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wuest.
- Wrobel 4,246 · U.S. census
- Wroblewski 4,602 · U.S. census
- Wrona 1,327 · U.S. census
- Wronski 784 · U.S. census
- Wu 45,815 · U.S. census
- Wucher 183 · U.S. census
- Wunderlich 3,536 · U.S. census
- Wunsch 1,615 · U.S. census
- Wurm 1,752 · U.S. census
- Wurster 2,135 · U.S. census
- Wurth 1,231 · U.S. census
- Wurtz 2,504 · U.S. census
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