How common is the surname Wickey?

1,330 people in the United States had the surname Wickey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,140 Americans. It ranked 20,088th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wickey?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wickey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wickey getting more or less common?

More common. 915 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,330 in 2010, up 45%.

The surname Wickey

A surname, carried by 1,330 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wickey is more common than 87.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,330 people named Wickey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 232,140 Americans. That is up 45% since 2000, when the Census counted 915.

#20,088

rank among US surnames

1,330

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+45.4%

change since 2000 (was #25,398)

Who is named Wickey

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

96% of people named Wickey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wickey

Wickey has the Soundex code W200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W200.

Questions

How common is the surname Wickey?: 1,330 people in the United States had the surname Wickey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,140 Americans. It ranked 20,088th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wickey?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wickey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wickey getting more or less common?: More common. 915 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,330 in 2010, up 45%.