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    The surname Wilshire

    A surname, carried by 760 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W426

    Wilshire: #30,665 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wilshire #30,665, 760 people Wilshire: #30,665 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Wilshire #30,665, 760 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wilshire is more common than 81.1% of them.

    Origin

    Reduced variant of Wiltshire. The Los Angeles neighborhood is named for Wilshire Boulevard.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 760 people named Wilshire in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 406,244 Americans. That is up 9.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 695.

    #30,665
    rank among US surnames
    760
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.4%
    change since 2000 (was #31,492)

    Who is named Wilshire

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

    89% of people named Wilshire identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wilshire

    Wilshire has the Soundex code W426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W426.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wilshire come from?
    Reduced variant of Wiltshire. The Los Angeles neighborhood is named for Wilshire Boulevard.
    How common is the surname Wilshire?
    760 people in the United States had the surname Wilshire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 406,244 Americans. It ranked 30,665th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wilshire?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Wilshire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wilshire getting more or less common?
    More common. 695 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 760 in 2010, up 9.4%.