The surname Wedding
A surname, carried by 1,818 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W352
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,818 people named Wedding in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,827 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,764.
#15,970
rank among US surnames
1,818
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+3.1%
change since 2000 (was #15,293)
Who is named Wedding
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Wedding identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Surnames that sound like Wedding
Wedding has the Soundex code W352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W352.
Questions
- How common is the surname Wedding?
- 1,818 people in the United States had the surname Wedding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,827 Americans. It ranked 15,970th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wedding?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Wedding identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Wedding getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,764 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,818 in 2010, up 3.1%.