How common is the surname Wiebe?

3,754 people in the United States had the surname Wiebe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. It ranked 8,736th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wiebe?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wiebe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wiebe getting more or less common?

More common. 3,212 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,754 in 2010, up 17%.

The surname Wiebe

A surname, carried by 3,754 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wiebe is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,754 people named Wiebe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,212.

#8,736

rank among US surnames

3,754

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+16.9%

change since 2000 (was #9,317)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,728	Werth	3,757	82,179
#8,732	Chien	3,756	82,201
#8,734	Gilkey	3,755	82,223
#8,736	Trevizo	3,754	82,244
#8,741	Bitner	3,753	82,266
#8,743	Seabolt	3,752	82,288

Who is named Wiebe

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

94% of people named Wiebe identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wiebe

Wehbe

Wiebe has the Soundex code W100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W100.

Questions

How common is the surname Wiebe?: 3,754 people in the United States had the surname Wiebe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. It ranked 8,736th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wiebe?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wiebe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wiebe getting more or less common?: More common. 3,212 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,754 in 2010, up 17%.