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The surname Weldy

A surname, carried by 1,882 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W430

Weldy: #15,546 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weldy #15,546, 1,882 people Weldy: #15,546 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weldy #15,546, 1,882 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weldy is more common than 90.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,882 people named Weldy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 164,052 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,809.

#15,546
rank among US surnames
1,882
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+4%
change since 2000 (was #14,995)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,541Pomerantz1,883163,965
#15,546Weldy1,882164,052
#15,551Buscher1,881164,139

Who is named Weldy

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

93% of people named Weldy identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • 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 Weldy

Weldy has the Soundex code W430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W430.

Questions

How common is the surname Weldy?
1,882 people in the United States had the surname Weldy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 164,052 Americans. It ranked 15,546th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Weldy?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Weldy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Weldy getting more or less common?
More common. 1,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,882 in 2010, up 4.0%.