Wagner

Wagner is the 181st most common surname in the United States, shared by 149,267 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,002.

By the numbers

People: 149,267
Rank: 181st
How common: 1 in 2,002
Per 100,000: 49.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

later conflated with wheelwright. See also the English surnames Wainwright and Wheelwright.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wagner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wagner

Richard Wagner (1813–1883)German composer
Otto Wagner (1841–1918)Austrian architect
Robert Wagner (born 1930)American actor
Lindsay Wagner (born 1949)American actress
Cosima Wagner (1837–1930)daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner
Sandro Wagner (born 1987)German football player and manager
Elin Wägner (1882–1949)Swedish writer, journalist and Suffragette
Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930)German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt

People named Wagner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wagner

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.