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    The surname Weddle

    An English place surname, carried by 6,296 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W340

    Weddle: #5,522 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weddle #5,522, 6,296 people Weddle: #5,522 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weddle #5,522, 6,296 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weddle is more common than 96.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Scottish habitational surname, from a place called Wedale, in the Scottish Borders. This placename could derive from Old English wedd (“pledge, security”) + dæl (“dale, valley”).

    Weddle 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 6,296 people named Weddle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,038 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,207.

    #5,522
    rank among US surnames
    6,296
    people in 2010
    2.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #5,175)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,518Runyan6,30148,999
    #5,520Halvorson6,29849,023
    #5,521Speck6,29749,031
    #5,522Hodson6,29649,038

    Who is named Weddle

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

    88% of people named Weddle identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Weddle

    Weddle has the Soundex code W340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W340.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Weddle come from?
    Scottish habitational surname, from a place called Wedale, in the Scottish Borders. This placename could derive from Old English wedd (“pledge, security”) + dæl (“dale, valley”).
    How common is the surname Weddle?
    6,296 people in the United States had the surname Weddle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,038 Americans. It ranked 5,522nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Weddle?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Weddle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Weddle?
    Weddle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Weddle getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,207 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,296 in 2010, up 1.4%.
    What are other spellings of Weddle?
    Waddell, Weddell and Woodle.