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    The surname Whetzel

    A surname, carried by 2,536 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W324

    Whetzel: #12,264 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whetzel #12,264, 2,536 people Whetzel: #12,264 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whetzel #12,264, 2,536 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whetzel is more common than 92.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,536 people named Whetzel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,745 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,519.

    #12,264
    rank among US surnames
    2,536
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #11,469)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,255Cabe2,538121,649
    #12,261Starner2,537121,697
    #12,264Lounsbury2,536121,745
    #12,269Berggren2,535121,793

    Who is named Whetzel

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

    94% of people named Whetzel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as two or more races and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whetzel

    Whetzel has the Soundex code W324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W324.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whetzel?
    2,536 people in the United States had the surname Whetzel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,745 Americans. It ranked 12,264th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whetzel?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Whetzel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Whetzel getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,519 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,536 in 2010, up 0.7%.