How common is the surname Wiens?

2,458 people in the United States had the surname Wiens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,608 Americans. It ranked 12,593rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wiens?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wiens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wiens getting more or less common?

More common. 2,345 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,458 in 2010, up 4.8%.

The surname Wiens

A surname, carried by 2,458 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wiens is more common than 92.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,458 people named Wiens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,608 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,345.

#12,593

rank among US surnames

2,458

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.8%

change since 2000 (was #12,181)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,584	Graver	2,460	125,506
#12,587	Leu	2,459	125,557
#12,593	Roesler	2,458	125,608
#12,597	Rasch	2,457	125,660
#12,602	Lichtenstein	2,456	125,711

Who is named Wiens

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

95% of people named Wiens identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wiens

Wiens has the Soundex code W520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W520.

Questions

How common is the surname Wiens?: 2,458 people in the United States had the surname Wiens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,608 Americans. It ranked 12,593rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wiens?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wiens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wiens getting more or less common?: More common. 2,345 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,458 in 2010, up 4.8%.