How common is the surname Wehner?

3,446 people in the United States had the surname Wehner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,595 Americans. It ranked 9,440th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wehner?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wehner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wehner getting more or less common?

More common. 3,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,446 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Wehner

A surname, carried by 3,446 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wehner is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,446 people named Wehner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,595 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,045.

#9,440

rank among US surnames

3,446

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+13.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,806)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,431	Geter	3,449	89,517
#9,433	Bork	3,448	89,543
#9,437	Bethune	3,447	89,569
#9,440	Wehner	3,446	89,595
#9,444	Durso	3,445	89,621
#9,446	McGruder	3,444	89,647
#9,449	Subramanian	3,443	89,673

Who is named Wehner

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

95% of people named Wehner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wehner

Wehner 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 Wehner?: 3,446 people in the United States had the surname Wehner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,595 Americans. It ranked 9,440th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wehner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wehner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wehner getting more or less common?: More common. 3,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,446 in 2010, up 13%.