The surname Wray
A Norse place surname, carried by 15,405 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ɹeɪ/ 1 syllable Soundex W600
Origin
Norse origin
From Old Norse vrá (“nook, corner, recess”).
Wray is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 15,405 people named Wray in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 20,042 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 14,812.
Who is named Wray
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Wray identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 12%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Wroe
Wray has the Soundex code W600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W600.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Wray come from?
- From Old Norse vrá (“nook, corner, recess”).
- How common is the surname Wray?
- 15,405 people in the United States had the surname Wray in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 20,042 Americans. It ranked 2,367th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wray?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Wray identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Wray?
- Wray is /ɹeɪ/, one syllable.
- What type of surname is Wray?
- Wray is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Wray getting more or less common?
- More common. 14,812 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,405 in 2010, up 4.0%.
- What are other spellings of Wray?
- Wroe.