How common is the surname Widner?

3,992 people in the United States had the surname Widner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,341 Americans. It ranked 8,299th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Widner?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Widner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Widner getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,130 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,992 in 2010, down 3.3%.

The surname Widner

A surname, carried by 3,992 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W356

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Widner is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,992 people named Widner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,341 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,130.

#8,299

rank among US surnames

3,992

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

-3.3%

change since 2000 (was #7,433)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,293	Blackshear	3,995	77,283
#8,295	Ice	3,994	77,302
#8,297	Schiff	3,993	77,322
#8,299	Hoard	3,992	77,341
#8,304	Vannoy	3,991	77,360
#8,305	Jean-Pierre	3,990	77,380

Who is named Widner

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

93% of people named Widner identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Widner

Widner has the Soundex code W356, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W356.

Questions

How common is the surname Widner?: 3,992 people in the United States had the surname Widner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,341 Americans. It ranked 8,299th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Widner?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Widner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Widner getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,130 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,992 in 2010, down 3.3%.