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    The surname Weathersby

    A surname, carried by 3,844 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W362

    Weathersby: #8,570 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weathersby #8,570, 3,844 people Weathersby: #8,570 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weathersby #8,570, 3,844 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weathersby is more common than 94.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,844 people named Weathersby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,319 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,539.

    #8,570
    rank among US surnames
    3,844
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.6%
    change since 2000 (was #8,567)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,562Manrique3,84780,256
    #8,567Fitz3,84680,277
    #8,568Kobayashi3,84580,298
    #8,570Weathersby3,84480,319
    #8,572Schock3,84380,340
    #8,576Harty3,84280,361
    #8,577Smeltzer3,84180,382

    Who is named Weathersby

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

    65% of people named Weathersby identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 65%
    • White (not Hispanic) 30%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Weathersby

    Weathersby has the Soundex code W362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W362.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Weathersby?
    3,844 people in the United States had the surname Weathersby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,319 Americans. It ranked 8,570th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Weathersby?
    In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Weathersby identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Weathersby getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,844 in 2010, up 8.6%.