The surname Wimbush
A surname, carried by 2,037 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W512
Origin
Variant of Wimbish.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,037 people named Wimbush in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,569 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,975.
#14,612
rank among US surnames
2,037
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+3.1%
change since 2000 (was #14,012)
Who is named Wimbush
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Wimbush identified as Black (not Hispanic), 5.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 88%
- White (not Hispanic) 5.7%
- Two or more races 3.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Wimbush has the Soundex code W512, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W512.
Questions
- Where does the surname Wimbush come from?
- Variant of Wimbish.
- How common is the surname Wimbush?
- 2,037 people in the United States had the surname Wimbush in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,569 Americans. It ranked 14,612th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wimbush?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Wimbush identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Wimbush getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,975 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,037 in 2010, up 3.1%.