Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Wehmeyer

    A surname, carried by 1,817 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W560

    Wehmeyer: #15,978 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wehmeyer #15,978, 1,817 people Wehmeyer: #15,978 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wehmeyer #15,978, 1,817 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wehmeyer is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,817 people named Wehmeyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,920 Americans. That is down 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,920.

    #15,978
    rank among US surnames
    1,817
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.4%
    change since 2000 (was #14,314)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,970Deines1,818169,827
    #15,978Doris1,817169,920
    #15,985Manges1,816170,014

    Who is named Wehmeyer

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

    95% of people named Wehmeyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander 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 Wehmeyer

    Wehmeyer has the Soundex code W560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W560.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wehmeyer?
    1,817 people in the United States had the surname Wehmeyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,920 Americans. It ranked 15,978th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wehmeyer?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wehmeyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Wehmeyer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,920 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,817 in 2010, down 5.4%.