How common is the surname Wathen?

3,432 people in the United States had the surname Wathen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,961 Americans. It ranked 9,479th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wathen?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wathen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wathen getting more or less common?

More common. 3,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,432 in 2010, up 5.1%.

The surname Wathen

A surname, carried by 3,432 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wathen is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,432 people named Wathen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,961 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,266.

#9,479

rank among US surnames

3,432

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+5.1%

change since 2000 (was #9,185)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,471	Spradley	3,434	89,908
#9,473	Scalf	3,433	89,935
#9,479	Umanzor	3,432	89,961
#9,483	Lundin	3,431	89,987
#9,484	Holleman	3,430	90,013
#9,486	Brathwaite	3,429	90,040
#9,488	Schirmer	3,428	90,066

Who is named Wathen

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

93% of people named Wathen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wathen

Wathen has the Soundex code W350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W350.

Questions

How common is the surname Wathen?: 3,432 people in the United States had the surname Wathen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,961 Americans. It ranked 9,479th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wathen?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wathen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wathen getting more or less common?: More common. 3,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,432 in 2010, up 5.1%.