How common is the surname Wertz?

8,198 people in the United States had the surname Wertz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,661 Americans. It ranked 4,331st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wertz?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wertz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wertz getting more or less common?

Less common. 8,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,198 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Wertz

A surname, carried by 8,198 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wertz is more common than 97.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,198 people named Wertz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,661 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,244.

#4,331

rank among US surnames

8,198

people in 2010

2.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #3,952)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,322	Ahern	8,221	37,556
#4,323	Rhea	8,219	37,565
#4,324	Wild	8,217	37,574
#4,326	Castleberry	8,210	37,606
#4,327	DeAngelo	8,205	37,629
#4,329	Settle	8,202	37,643
#4,330	Spearman	8,199	37,656

Who is named Wertz

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

94% of people named Wertz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wertz

Wertz 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 Wertz?: 8,198 people in the United States had the surname Wertz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,661 Americans. It ranked 4,331st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wertz?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wertz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wertz getting more or less common?: Less common. 8,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,198 in 2010, down 0.6%.