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    The surname Welborn

    A surname, carried by 7,095 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W416

    Welborn: #4,956 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Welborn #4,956, 7,095 people Welborn: #4,956 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Welborn #4,956, 7,095 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Welborn is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,095 people named Welborn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,516 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,014.

    #4,956
    rank among US surnames
    7,095
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #4,622)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,947Wilkie7,11643,388
    #4,948Wainwright7,11443,400
    #4,949Rainwater7,11143,418
    #4,951Enright7,10843,436
    #4,952Ackley7,10243,473
    #4,953Bankston7,10143,479
    #4,955Nesmith7,09743,504

    Who is named Welborn

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

    90% of people named Welborn identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Welborn

    Welborn has the Soundex code W416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W416.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Welborn?
    7,095 people in the United States had the surname Welborn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,516 Americans. It ranked 4,956th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Welborn?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Welborn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Welborn getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,014 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,095 in 2010, up 1.2%.