The surname Wire
A surname, carried by 1,402 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W600
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,402 people named Wire in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 220,218 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,433.
#19,306
rank among US surnames
1,402
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-2.2%
change since 2000 (was #17,970)
Who is named Wire
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Wire identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Wire has the Soundex code W600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W600.
Questions
- How common is the surname Wire?
- 1,402 people in the United States had the surname Wire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,218 Americans. It ranked 19,306th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wire?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Wire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Wire getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,433 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,402 in 2010, down 2.2%.