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    The surname Wait

    A surname, carried by 3,179 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W300

    Wait: #10,145 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wait #10,145, 3,179 people Wait: #10,145 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wait #10,145, 3,179 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wait is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    English surname, variant of Waite.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,179 people named Wait in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,120 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,859.

    #10,145
    rank among US surnames
    3,179
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.2%
    change since 2000 (was #10,327)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,136Benites3,18197,059
    #10,140Nardone3,18097,090
    #10,145Esch3,17997,120
    #10,150Bailes3,17897,151

    Who is named Wait

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

    94% of people named Wait identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wait

    Wait has the Soundex code W300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W300.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wait come from?
    English surname, variant of Waite.
    How common is the surname Wait?
    3,179 people in the United States had the surname Wait in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,120 Americans. It ranked 10,145th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wait?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wait identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Wait getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,859 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,179 in 2010, up 11%.