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The WIRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,433 17970 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 762 6858 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +671 -11112 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 5 154300 0 0
United Kingdom 140 20309 0 3
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 WIRE

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

Ethnic distribution of WIRE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 51 3.56
Mixed Race 21 1.47
White (Hispanic) 17 1.19
White (Caucasian) 1,333 93.02
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of WIRE in historical publications


Local. A market town of Hertfordshire, England. Saxon Waer, to defend, to hold, protect. Wear, a fence of stakes or rods set in a stream for catching fish; a dam.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to WIRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WIRE.

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 WIRE

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