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    The surname Wyer

    A surname, carried by 1,013 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W600

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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). Wyer is more common than 84.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,013 people named Wyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 304,783 Americans. That is down 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,097.

    #24,648
    rank among US surnames
    1,013
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.7%
    change since 2000 (was #22,033)

    Who is named Wyer

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

    92% of people named Wyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • 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.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wyer

    Wyer has the Soundex code W600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wyer?
    1,013 people in the United States had the surname Wyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 304,783 Americans. It ranked 24,648th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wyer?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Wyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wyer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,013 in 2010, down 7.7%.