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    The surname Weise

    A German surname, carried by 3,834 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W200

    Weise: #8,590 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weise #8,590, 3,834 people Weise: #8,590 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weise #8,590, 3,834 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weise is more common than 94.7% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    A surname from German.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,834 people named Weise in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,528 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,742.

    #8,590
    rank among US surnames
    3,834
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,155)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,586Kenna3,83780,465
    #8,587Leyba3,83680,486
    #8,589Willette3,83580,507
    #8,590Weise3,83480,528
    #8,593Cueto3,83380,549
    #8,594Haack3,83280,570

    Who is named Weise

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

    92% of people named Weise identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Weises

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Julia Vargas-Weise
      Bolivian photographer, educator and filmmaker, 1942–2018

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Weise

    Weise has the Soundex code W200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W200.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Weise come from?
    Weise is German in origin.
    How common is the surname Weise?
    3,834 people in the United States had the surname Weise in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,528 Americans. It ranked 8,590th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Weise?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Weise identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Weise?
    Julia Vargas-Weise, Bolivian photographer, educator and filmmaker.
    Where is the surname Weise most common?
    Wikidata records people named Weise in Bolivia.
    Is the surname Weise getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,742 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,834 in 2010, up 2.5%.