Waid

2,812 people in the United States were counted with the surname Waid in the 2020 census, making it the 10,821st most common in the country. That is about one person in 106,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,812
Rank: 10,821st
How common: 1 in 106,000
Per 100,000: 0.94

Where the name comes from

From the German surname. See Weide (“pasture”), also derived from Middle High German weit (“woad”), see English woad.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Waid

Mark Waid (born 1962)American comics writer

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

Surnames like Waid

Try it on yourself

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.