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The WEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,655 8331 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 60 44492 0 1
Change since 1880 +3595 +36161 +N/A +13
Other Countries
Australia 225 6777 0.001 14
United Kingdom 0 0
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of WEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the WEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of WEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 160 4.38
Mixed Race 72 1.97
Black/African American 24 0.66
Asian/Pacific 3,383 92.56
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the WEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

WEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of WEN in historical publications

SCA WEN. " The name Scawen is local, and signifies a place where slunvan or elder trees grow, and is derived from the Japhetical Greek, cKoftuii, sambachus, ebulus, the elder-tree, who suitable to his name, gives for his arms, ' Argent, a scan-en or elder-tree, Vert.' " Hals, in D. Gilbert's Cornwall, ii. 67.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to WEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for WEN

The following words are slight variants of WEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.