How common is the surname Wiener?

5,191 people in the United States had the surname Wiener in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 59,477 Americans. It ranked 6,528th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wiener?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wiener identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wiener getting more or less common?

Less common. 5,219 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,191 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Wiener

A German surname, carried by 5,191 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wiener is more common than 96% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

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 5,191 people named Wiener in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 59,477 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,219.

#6,528

rank among US surnames

5,191

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #6,064)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,520	Pettus	5,204	59,329
#6,521	Macy	5,203	59,340
#6,522	Reiner	5,202	59,351
#6,523	Claiborne	5,201	59,363
#6,524	Oswalt	5,198	59,397
#6,525	Berumen	5,195	59,431
#6,526	Goodall	5,193	59,454

Who is named Wiener

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

95% of people named Wiener identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 0.7%
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 Wiener

Wiener has the Soundex code W560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W560.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Wiener come from?: Wiener is German in origin.
How common is the surname Wiener?: 5,191 people in the United States had the surname Wiener in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 59,477 Americans. It ranked 6,528th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wiener?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wiener identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wiener getting more or less common?: Less common. 5,219 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,191 in 2010, down 0.5%.