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    The surname Wyche

    A surname, carried by 4,573 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W200

    Wyche: #7,287 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wyche #7,287, 4,573 people Wyche: #7,287 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wyche #7,287, 4,573 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wyche is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,573 people named Wyche in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,515 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,311.

    #7,287
    rank among US surnames
    4,573
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,149)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,282Stedman4,57667,471
    #7,283Dickenson4,57567,485
    #7,284Swick4,57467,500
    #7,287Mariani4,57367,515
    #7,291Wortman4,57267,530

    Who is named Wyche

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

    74% of people named Wyche identified as Black (not Hispanic), 19% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 74%
    • White (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Two or more races 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wyche

    Wyche has the Soundex code W200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wyche?
    4,573 people in the United States had the surname Wyche in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,515 Americans. It ranked 7,287th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wyche?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Wyche identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 19% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wyche getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,311 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,573 in 2010, up 6.1%.