The surname Woelfel
A surname, carried by 1,715 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W414
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,715 people named Woelfel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,027 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,700.
#16,696
rank among US surnames
1,715
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.9%
change since 2000 (was #15,759)
Who is named Woelfel
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Woelfel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Woelfel
Woelfel has the Soundex code W414, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W414.
Questions
- How common is the surname Woelfel?
- 1,715 people in the United States had the surname Woelfel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,027 Americans. It ranked 16,696th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Woelfel?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Woelfel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Woelfel getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,700 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,715 in 2010, up 0.9%.