Wieland

At the 2020 census, 4,991 Americans bore the surname Wieland — 6,535th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,991
Rank: 6,535th
How common: 1 in 59,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

German, gsw, and Jewish surname, from Wieland, the German reflex of the legendary craftsman Wayland the Smith in Germanic folklore, from Old High German Wiolant, from Proto-Germanic *Wēlanduz.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813)German poet and writer
Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957)German Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Károly Wieland (1934–2020)Canoe racer
Rainer Wieland (born 1957)German politician
Arnold Othmar Wieland (born 1940)Italian theologian

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

Surnames like Wieland

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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.