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    The surname Weddington

    An English place surname, carried by 2,336 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W352

    Weddington: #13,121 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weddington #13,121, 2,336 people Weddington: #13,121 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weddington #13,121, 2,336 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weddington is more common than 91.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From an unattested Old English personal name *Hwæt + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

    Weddington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,336 people named Weddington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 132,168 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,311.

    #13,121
    rank among US surnames
    2,336
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #12,334)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,115Leming2,337132,112
    #13,121Hinnant2,336132,168
    #13,124Mowrey2,335132,225
    #13,127Flannigan2,334132,282

    Who is named Weddington

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

    61% of people named Weddington identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 61%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 34%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • 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 Weddington

    Weddington has the Soundex code W352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W352.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Weddington come from?
    From an unattested Old English personal name *Hwæt + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
    How common is the surname Weddington?
    2,336 people in the United States had the surname Weddington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,168 Americans. It ranked 13,121st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Weddington?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Weddington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Weddington?
    Weddington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Weddington getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,311 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,336 in 2010, up 1.1%.