Weems

Weems is the 3,567th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,750 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,700.

By the numbers

People: 9,750
Rank: 3,567th
How common: 1 in 30,700
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Variant of Wemyss.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.2%
Black, not Hispanic 32.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Weems

Sonny Weems (born 1986)American basketball player
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953)African American photographer
Mason Locke Weems (1759–1825)fictionalizing biographer of George Washington

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

Surnames like Weems

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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.