How common is the surname Wier?

2,675 people in the United States had the surname Wier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,419 Americans. It ranked 11,716th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wier?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wier getting more or less common?

More common. 2,636 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,675 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Wier

A surname, carried by 2,675 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wier is more common than 92.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,675 people named Wier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,419 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,636.

#11,716

rank among US surnames

2,675

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #11,060)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,709	Longenecker	2,677	115,333
#11,714	Dismuke	2,676	115,376
#11,716	Ikeda	2,675	115,419
#11,719	Blazek	2,674	115,462
#11,722	Pickel	2,673	115,505

Who is named Wier

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

93% of people named Wier identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wier

Wier has the Soundex code W600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W600.

Questions

How common is the surname Wier?: 2,675 people in the United States had the surname Wier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,419 Americans. It ranked 11,716th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wier?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wier getting more or less common?: More common. 2,636 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,675 in 2010, up 1.5%.