The surname Wilcher
A surname, carried by 4,069 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W426
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,069 people named Wilcher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,877 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,900.
#8,148
rank among US surnames
4,069
people in 2010
1.4
per 100,000 Americans
+4.3%
change since 2000 (was #7,871)
Who is named Wilcher
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
54% of people named Wilcher identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 54%
- Black (not Hispanic) 41%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Wilcher has the Soundex code W426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W426.
Questions
- How common is the surname Wilcher?
- 4,069 people in the United States had the surname Wilcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,877 Americans. It ranked 8,148th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wilcher?
- In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Wilcher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Wilcher getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,900 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,069 in 2010, up 4.3%.