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    The surname Wellborn

    A surname, carried by 1,946 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W416

    Wellborn: #15,151 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wellborn #15,151, 1,946 people Wellborn: #15,151 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wellborn #15,151, 1,946 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wellborn is more common than 90.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,946 people named Wellborn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 158,656 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,835.

    #15,151
    rank among US surnames
    1,946
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #14,823)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,147Sicard1,947158,575
    #15,151Mondesir1,946158,656
    #15,159Hepworth1,945158,738

    Who is named Wellborn

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

    93% of people named Wellborn identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • 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 Wellborn

    Wellborn 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 Wellborn?
    1,946 people in the United States had the surname Wellborn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 158,656 Americans. It ranked 15,151st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wellborn?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wellborn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wellborn getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,835 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,946 in 2010, up 6.0%.