How common is the surname Welcher?

1,944 people in the United States had the surname Welcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 158,820 Americans. It ranked 15,163rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Welcher getting more or less common?

More common. 1,657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,944 in 2010, up 17%.

The surname Welcher

A surname, carried by 1,944 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W426

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Welcher is more common than 90.7% of them.

Origin

English surname, spelling variant of Welker.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,944 people named Welcher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 158,820 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,657.

#15,163

rank among US surnames

1,944

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+17.3%

change since 2000 (was #16,062)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,159	Hepworth	1,945	158,738
#15,163	Welcher	1,944	158,820
#15,166	Martelli	1,943	158,901
#15,171	Ferman	1,942	158,983

Who is named Welcher

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

83% of people named Welcher identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Black (not Hispanic) 12%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Welcher

Welcher has the Soundex code W426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W426.

Questions

Where does the surname Welcher come from?: English surname, spelling variant of Welker.
How common is the surname Welcher?: 1,944 people in the United States had the surname Welcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 158,820 Americans. It ranked 15,163rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Welcher?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Welcher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Welcher getting more or less common?: More common. 1,657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,944 in 2010, up 17%.