Werner

33,291 people in the United States were counted with the surname Werner in the 2020 census, making it the 1,038th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,978.

By the numbers

People: 33,291
Rank: 1,038th
How common: 1 in 8,978
Per 100,000: 11.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Werner

Alfred Werner (1866–1919)Swiss chemist Nobel laureate
Timo Werner (born 1996)German association football player
Oskar Werner (1922–1984)actor
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817)German geologist
Wendelin Werner (born 1968)Mathematician and Fields Medallist
Pierre Werner (1913–2002)Luxembourgish politician (1913-2002), Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959-1974, 1979-1984)
Anton von Werner (1843–1915)German painter
Axel Werner (born 1996)Argentinian association football player

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

Surnames like Werner

Also a first name

Werner has been given to 3,433 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1930. See it as a given name.

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.