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    The surname Wethington

    A surname, carried by 3,379 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W352

    Wethington: #9,618 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wethington #9,618, 3,379 people Wethington: #9,618 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wethington #9,618, 3,379 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wethington is more common than 94.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,379 people named Wethington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,372 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,161.

    #9,618
    rank among US surnames
    3,379
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.9%
    change since 2000 (was #9,434)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,609Sabatino3,38291,291
    #9,611Cuenca3,38191,318
    #9,615Backer3,38091,345
    #9,618Courville3,37991,372
    #9,620Mardis3,37891,399
    #9,621Nassar3,37791,426
    #9,624Benedetto3,37591,480

    Who is named Wethington

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

    93% of people named Wethington identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • 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 Wethington

    Wethington has the Soundex code W352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W352.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wethington?
    3,379 people in the United States had the surname Wethington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,372 Americans. It ranked 9,618th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wethington?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wethington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wethington getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,379 in 2010, up 6.9%.