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    The surname Wrench

    A nickname surname, carried by 768 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W652

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wrench is more common than 81.3% of them.

    Origin

    From wrench, in the sense of trick, artifice, deceit, thus a nickname for a sly and wily person.

    Wrench is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 768 people named Wrench in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 402,012 Americans. That is up 9.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 699.

    #30,420
    rank among US surnames
    768
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.9%
    change since 2000 (was #31,339)

    Who is named Wrench

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

    85% of people named Wrench identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wrench come from?
    From wrench, in the sense of trick, artifice, deceit, thus a nickname for a sly and wily person.
    How common is the surname Wrench?
    768 people in the United States had the surname Wrench in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 402,012 Americans. It ranked 30,420th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wrench?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Wrench identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Wrench?
    Wrench is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Wrench getting more or less common?
    More common. 699 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 768 in 2010, up 9.9%.