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    The surname Wien

    A German place surname, carried by 500 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W500

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wien is more common than 73.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    From German Wien (“Vienna”); a habitational surname for the city. Doublet of Vienna.

    Wien is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 500 people named Wien in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 617,491 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 486.

    #43,206
    rank among US surnames
    500
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.9%
    change since 2000 (was #42,056)

    Who is named Wien

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

    93% of people named Wien identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    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 Wien

    Wien has the Soundex code W500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W500.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wien come from?
    From German Wien (“Vienna”); a habitational surname for the city. Doublet of Vienna.
    How common is the surname Wien?
    500 people in the United States had the surname Wien in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 617,491 Americans. It ranked 43,206th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wien?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wien identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Wien?
    Wien is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wien getting more or less common?
    More common. 486 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 500 in 2010, up 2.9%.