Wheeler

At the 2020 census, 119,866 Americans bore the surname Wheeler — 254th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,494.

By the numbers

People: 119,866
Rank: 254th
How common: 1 in 2,494
Per 100,000: 40.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.7%
Black, not Hispanic 13.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008)American physicist
William A. Wheeler (1819–1887)vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881
Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976)British archaeologist
Maggie Wheeler (born 1961)American actress
Blake Wheeler (born 1986)American ice hockey player
Lucille Wheeler (born 1935)Canadian alpine skier
Andrew R. Wheeler (born 1964)15th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966)American mathematician

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

Surnames like Wheeler

Also a first name

Wheeler has been given to 1,921 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. 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.