Westmoreland

9,922 people in the United States were counted with the surname Westmoreland in the 2020 census, making it the 3,504th most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,922
Rank: 3,504th
How common: 1 in 30,100
Per 100,000: 3.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.0%
Black, not Hispanic 17.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Westmoreland

William Westmoreland (1914–2005)United States Army general
Wash Westmoreland (born 1966)American film director
Lynn Westmoreland (born 1950)American politician from the state of Georgia

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

Surnames like Westmoreland

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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.