Wagenknecht

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wagenknecht.

Proper noun

Wagenknecht (plural Wagenknechts)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wagenknecht is the 38332^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 578 individuals. Wagenknecht is most common among White (96.54%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wagenknecht”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

German

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

Etymology

By surface analysis, Wagen +‎ Knecht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvaːɡŋ̍ˌknɛçt], /ˈvaːɡənˌknɛçt/
• Hyphenation: Wa‧gen‧knecht

Proper noun

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

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Wagenknecht [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Wagenknecht	(eine)	(die)	Wagenknecht	(die)	Wagenknechts
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Wagenknechts, Wagenknecht1	(einer)	(der)	Wagenknecht	(der)	Wagenknechts
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Wagenknecht	(einer)	(der)	Wagenknecht	(den)	Wagenknechts
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Wagenknecht	(eine)	(die)	Wagenknecht	(die)	Wagenknechts

¹With an article.

Related terms

• Wagener, Wagner, Waag
• Bauknecht, Gutknecht, Herrenknecht, Ochsenknecht, Schildknecht, Liebknecht, Ruprecht