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    The surname Wilbanks

    A surname, carried by 8,107 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W415

    Wilbanks: #4,384 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wilbanks #4,384, 8,107 people Wilbanks: #4,384 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wilbanks #4,384, 8,107 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wilbanks is more common than 97.3% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,107 people named Wilbanks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,084 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,037.

    #4,384
    rank among US surnames
    8,107
    people in 2010
    2.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #4,075)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,375Hardison8,12837,985
    #4,376Frasier8,12438,004
    #4,378Pendergrass8,12338,009
    #4,379Fain8,12238,013
    #4,380Ramsay8,12038,023
    #4,381Manriquez8,11938,028
    #4,382Fort8,11738,037

    Who is named Wilbanks

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

    93% of people named Wilbanks identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wilbanks

    Wilbanks has the Soundex code W415, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W415.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wilbanks?
    8,107 people in the United States had the surname Wilbanks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,084 Americans. It ranked 4,384th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wilbanks?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wilbanks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wilbanks getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,037 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,107 in 2010, up 0.9%.