How common is the surname Welling?

4,164 people in the United States had the surname Welling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,146 Americans. It ranked 7,947th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Welling?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Welling identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Welling?

Welling is /ˈwɛlɪŋ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Welling getting more or less common?

More common. 3,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,164 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Welling

A surname, carried by 4,164 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈwɛlɪŋ/ 2 syllables Soundex W452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Welling is more common than 95.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,164 people named Welling in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,146 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,678.

#7,947

rank among US surnames

4,164

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+13.2%

change since 2000 (was #8,279)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,940	Waddle	4,167	74,093
#7,942	Wirtz	4,166	74,111
#7,944	Mele	4,165	74,129
#7,947	Czarnecki	4,164	74,146
#7,950	Alleyne	4,163	74,164
#7,953	Papp	4,162	74,182

Who is named Welling

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

95% of people named Welling identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Welling

Welling has the Soundex code W452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W452.

Questions

How common is the surname Welling?: 4,164 people in the United States had the surname Welling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,146 Americans. It ranked 7,947th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Welling?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Welling identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Welling?: Welling is /ˈwɛlɪŋ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Welling getting more or less common?: More common. 3,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,164 in 2010, up 13%.