Wall

At the 2020 census, 52,042 Americans bore the surname Wall — 635th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,743.

By the numbers

People: 52,042
Rank: 635th
How common: 1 in 5,743
Per 100,000: 17.4

Where the name comes from

Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Wall

Larry Wall (born 1954)American computer programmer and author
Jeff Wall (born 1946)Canadian photographer
John Wall (born 1990)American basketball player
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953)American environmentalist
Paul Wall (born 1981)American rapper, actor, jewelry designer and DJ from Texas
Kim Wall (1987–2017)Swedish journalist
Robert Wall (1939–2022)American martial artist
Ricardo Wall (1694–1777)Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service

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

Surnames like Wall

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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.