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    The surname Wigington

    A surname, carried by 1,432 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W252

    Wigington: #19,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wigington #19,019, 1,432 people Wigington: #19,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wigington #19,019, 1,432 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wigington is more common than 88.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,432 people named Wigington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,604 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,445.

    #19,019
    rank among US surnames
    1,432
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #17,859)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,012McGuffey1,433215,454
    #19,019Whitty1,432215,604
    #19,027Euceda1,431215,755

    Who is named Wigington

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

    89% of people named Wigington identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wigington

    Wigington has the Soundex code W252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W252.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wigington?
    1,432 people in the United States had the surname Wigington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,604 Americans. It ranked 19,019th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wigington?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Wigington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wigington getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,432 in 2010, down 0.9%.