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    The surname Wilborn

    A surname, carried by 4,752 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W416

    Wilborn: #7,047 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wilborn #7,047, 4,752 people Wilborn: #7,047 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wilborn #7,047, 4,752 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wilborn is more common than 95.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,752 people named Wilborn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,972 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,368.

    #7,047
    rank among US surnames
    4,752
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.8%
    change since 2000 (was #7,061)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,042Kissel4,75664,917
    #7,044Gandara4,75464,944
    #7,046Aubrey4,75364,958
    #7,047Wilborn4,75264,972
    #7,048Hooten4,75164,985
    #7,050Rinker4,75064,999

    Who is named Wilborn

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

    47% of people named Wilborn identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 47%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • 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 Wilborn

    Wilborn has the Soundex code W416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W416.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wilborn?
    4,752 people in the United States had the surname Wilborn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,972 Americans. It ranked 7,047th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wilborn?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Wilborn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wilborn getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,368 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,752 in 2010, up 8.8%.