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    The surname Wiles

    A patronymic surname, carried by 13,105 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W420

    Wiles: #2,754 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wiles #2,754, 13,105 people Wiles: #2,754 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wiles #2,754, 13,105 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wiles is more common than 98.3% of them.

    Origin

    From Wile + -s (patronymic suffix).

    Wiles is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 13,105 people named Wiles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 23,559 Americans. That is down 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,810.

    #2,754
    rank among US surnames
    13,105
    people in 2010
    4.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.1%
    change since 2000 (was #2,406)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,745Ely13,13023,515
    #2,746Martino13,12823,518
    #2,747Lance13,12223,529
    #2,748DuBose13,12023,532
    #2,749Redd13,11923,534
    #2,750Pringle13,11523,541
    #2,751Padron13,11423,543

    Who is named Wiles

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

    90% of people named Wiles identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Wyles

    Surnames that sound like Wiles

    Wiles has the Soundex code W420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wiles come from?
    From Wile + -s (patronymic suffix).
    How common is the surname Wiles?
    13,105 people in the United States had the surname Wiles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,559 Americans. It ranked 2,754th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wiles?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Wiles identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Wiles?
    Wiles is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Wiles getting more or less common?
    Less common. 13,810 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,105 in 2010, down 5.1%.
    What are other spellings of Wiles?
    Wyles.