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    The surname Wyse

    A surname, carried by 2,454 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W200

    Wyse: #12,613 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wyse #12,613, 2,454 people Wyse: #12,613 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wyse #12,613, 2,454 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wyse is more common than 92.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,454 people named Wyse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,813 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,376.

    #12,613
    rank among US surnames
    2,454
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,052)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,607Lanford2,455125,762
    #12,613Durgin2,454125,813
    #12,616Gordan2,453125,864
    #12,622Hao2,452125,916

    Who is named Wyse

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

    87% of people named Wyse identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wyse

    Wyse 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 Wyse?
    2,454 people in the United States had the surname Wyse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,813 Americans. It ranked 12,613th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wyse?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Wyse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wyse getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,376 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,454 in 2010, up 3.3%.