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The surname Willer

A surname, carried by 2,331 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W460

Willer: #13,133 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Willer #13,133, 2,331 people Willer: #13,133 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Willer #13,133, 2,331 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Willer is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,331 people named Willer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 132,452 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,305.

#13,133
rank among US surnames
2,331
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+1.1%
change since 2000 (was #12,360)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,124Mowrey2,335132,225
#13,127Flannigan2,334132,282
#13,132Meldrum2,332132,395
#13,133Hutsell2,331132,452
#13,138Ament2,330132,509
#13,142Cervera2,329132,566

Who is named Willer

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

91% of people named Willer identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Willer

Willer has the Soundex code W460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W460.

Questions

How common is the surname Willer?
2,331 people in the United States had the surname Willer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,452 Americans. It ranked 13,133rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Willer?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Willer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Willer getting more or less common?
More common. 2,305 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,331 in 2010, up 1.1%.