Waller

Waller is the 1,003rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 34,222 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,734.

By the numbers

People: 34,222
Rank: 1,003rd
How common: 1 in 8,734
Per 100,000: 11.5

Where the name comes from

Possibly from de valler (of the valley).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.5%
Black, not Hispanic 24.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Waller

Fats Waller (1904–1943)American jazz pianist and composer
Robert James Waller (1939–2017)American writer
Frank Waller (1884–1941)athletics competitor
Friedrich Waller (1920–2004)bobsledder
Grayson Waller (born 1990)Australian professional wrestler
Edmund Waller (1606–1687)English poet and politician
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922)physiologist
Facundo Waller (born 1997)association football player

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

Surnames like Waller

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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.