Wenzel

German

Alternative forms

• Wentzel, Wenzl

Etymology

From a diminutive of the name appearing in English as Wenceslaus, from Old Czech Venceslav, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslavъ. Doublet of Fatzke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnt͡sl̩/

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Proper noun

Wenzel

1. a male given name

Proper noun

Regional distribution of the surname Wenzel in Germany in 2005 (by number of telephone mainlines)

Regional distribution of the surname Wenzel in Austria in 2005 (by number of telephone mainlines)

Wenzel m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Wenzels or (with an article) Wenzel, feminine genitive Wenzel, plural Wenzels or Wenzel)

1. a surname originating as a patronymic

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wenzel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Scheller, Andrea (2020) “Wenzel”, in Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands‎^[1] (in German)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Wenzel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.t͡sɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sɛl
• Syllabification: Wen‧zel
• Homophone: Wencel

Proper noun

Wenzel m pers

1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Wenzel

	singular	plural
nominative	Wenzel	Wenzelowie/Wenzlowie
genitive	Wenzela/Wenzla	Wenzelów/Wenzlów
dative	Wenzelowi/Wenzlowi	Wenzelom/Wenzlom
accusative	Wenzela/Wenzla	Wenzelów/Wenzlów
instrumental	Wenzelem/Wenzlem	Wenzelami/Wenzlami
locative	Wenzelu/Wenzlu	Wenzelach/Wenzlach
vocative	Wenzelu/Wenzlu	Wenzelowie/Wenzlowie

Proper noun

Wenzel f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

Further reading

• “Wenzel”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022