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The surname Weatherbee

A Norse surname, carried by 1,196 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex W361

Weatherbee: #21,750 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weatherbee #21,750, 1,196 people Weatherbee: #21,750 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weatherbee #21,750, 1,196 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weatherbee is more common than 86.6% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

A surname from Old Norse.

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,196 people named Weatherbee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 258,148 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,125.

#21,750
rank among US surnames
1,196
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+6.3%
change since 2000 (was #21,605)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#21,750Celli1,196258,148
#21,759Finnigan1,195258,364

Who is named Weatherbee

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

92% of people named Weatherbee identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

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 Weatherbee

Weatherbee has the Soundex code W361, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W361.

Other Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Weatherbee come from?
Weatherbee is Norse in origin.
How common is the surname Weatherbee?
1,196 people in the United States had the surname Weatherbee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,148 Americans. It ranked 21,750th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Weatherbee?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Weatherbee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Weatherbee getting more or less common?
More common. 1,125 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,196 in 2010, up 6.3%.