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    The surname Viers

    A surname, carried by 2,413 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex V620

    Viers: #12,785 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Viers #12,785, 2,413 people Viers: #12,785 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Viers #12,785, 2,413 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Viers is more common than 92.1% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Vires.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,413 people named Viers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,951 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,413.

    #12,785
    rank among US surnames
    2,413
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #11,879)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,782Garibaldi2,414127,898
    #12,785Klock2,413127,951
    #12,789Sailor2,412128,004
    #12,794Scalzo2,411128,057

    Who is named Viers

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Viers identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Viers

    Viers has the Soundex code V620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V620.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Viers come from?
    Variant of Vires.
    How common is the surname Viers?
    2,413 people in the United States had the surname Viers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,951 Americans. It ranked 12,785th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Viers?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Viers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Viers getting more or less common?
    About as common. 2,413 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,413 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.