Wessel

6,030 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wessel in the 2020 census, making it the 5,566th most common in the country. That is about one person in 49,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,030
Rank: 5,566th
How common: 1 in 49,600
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

As a Dutch and German surname, pet form of Werner.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Wessel

Horst Wessel (1907–1930)SA officer
Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990)Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
Caspar Wessel (1745–1818)Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer
Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785)Norwegian-Danish writer
Kathrin Weßel (born 1967)athletics competitor
Wessel Gansfort (1419–1489)Dutch theologian
Ute Kircheis-Wessel (born 1953)German fencer
Dick Wessel (1913–1965)actor

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

Surnames like Wessel

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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.