The surname Werts
A surname, carried by 1,993 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex W632
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,993 people named Werts in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 154,915 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,985.
#14,862
rank among US surnames
1,993
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+0.4%
change since 2000 (was #13,943)
Who is named Werts
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
70% of people named Werts identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 70%
- Black (not Hispanic) 25%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Werts
Werts has the Soundex code W632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W632.
Questions
- How common is the surname Werts?
- 1,993 people in the United States had the surname Werts in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,915 Americans. It ranked 14,862nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Werts?
- In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Werts identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Werts getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,985 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,993 in 2010, up 0.4%.