Wiener Family Name and Heraldry

Wiener is an established spelling of the German surname Weiner. Its meaning, shared with Weiner, is “Wine seller”. Before spelling was fixed, Weiner was also written Wiener. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Wiener ranked 6,528 in the 2010 US Census, with 5,191 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 10,000 US surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 129 babies born in France were registered as Wiener, with the most births in 1921–1930. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Wainer.

Arms linked to Weiner and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Wiener family name pack.