Weir

18,392 people in the United States were counted with the surname Weir in the 2020 census, making it the 1,917th most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,300.

By the numbers

People: 18,392
Rank: 1,917th
How common: 1 in 16,300
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun weir. Compare Wear, Ware.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Weir

Peter Weir (born 1944)Australian film director
Andy Weir (born 1972)American writer
Johnny Weir (born 1984)American figure skater and television commentator
Bob Weir (1947–2026)American musician; member of the Grateful Dead
Warren Weir (born 1989)Jamaican athletics competitor
David Weir (born 1970)Scottish association football manager
Caroline Weir (born 1995)Scottish footballer
Judith Weir (born 1954)British composer

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

Surnames like Weir

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.