Wendt

Wendt is the 2,881st most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,174 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,174
Rank: 2,881st
How common: 1 in 24,600
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

German and Danish surname, from Wende, the German name for Slavic people (particularly Sorbs and Kashubs) from the borders of Germany and Poland. Compare Wendland, and the semantics of Serbin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Wendt

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.