Wheat

Wheat is the 3,355th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,451 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,600.

By the numbers

People: 10,451
Rank: 3,355th
How common: 1 in 28,600
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

English surname, probably from the noun wheat. Another sense meaning "bold, active, brave" is derived from Old English hwettan (“to encourage, embolden, sharpen”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.2%
Black, not Hispanic 12.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Wheat

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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.