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    The surname Wittwer

    A surname, carried by 1,390 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W360

    Wittwer: #19,441 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wittwer #19,441, 1,390 people Wittwer: #19,441 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wittwer #19,441, 1,390 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wittwer is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,390 people named Wittwer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,288.

    #19,441
    rank among US surnames
    1,390
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.9%
    change since 2000 (was #19,428)

    Who is named Wittwer

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

    95% of people named Wittwer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wittwer

    Wittwer has the Soundex code W360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W360.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wittwer?
    1,390 people in the United States had the surname Wittwer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. It ranked 19,441st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wittwer?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wittwer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Wittwer getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,390 in 2010, up 7.9%.