Welker

At the 2020 census, 8,088 Americans bore the surname Welker — 4,238th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,088
Rank: 4,238th
How common: 1 in 37,000
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Welker.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Welker

Frank Welker (born 1946)American actor
Kristen Welker (born 1976)American television journalist
Wes Welker (born 1981)American football player and coach

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

Surnames like Welker

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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.