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    The surname Wagener

    A surname, carried by 1,627 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W256

    Wagener: #17,359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wagener #17,359, 1,627 people Wagener: #17,359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wagener #17,359, 1,627 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wagener is more common than 89.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,627 people named Wagener in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,764 Americans. That is down 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,697.

    #17,359
    rank among US surnames
    1,627
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.1%
    change since 2000 (was #15,775)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,356Hunte1,628189,647
    #17,359Tussey1,627189,764
    #17,367Safi1,626189,880

    Who is named Wagener

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

    94% of people named Wagener identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wagener

    Wagener has the Soundex code W256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W256.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wagener?
    1,627 people in the United States had the surname Wagener in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,764 Americans. It ranked 17,359th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wagener?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wagener identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Wagener getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,627 in 2010, down 4.1%.