Wight

At the 2020 census, 4,817 Americans bore the surname Wight — 6,733rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 62,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,817
Rank: 6,733rd
How common: 1 in 62,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Scottish and English surname, from the noun wight.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Wight

Paul Wight (born 1972)American professional wrestler and actor
Robert Wight (1796–1872)Scottish surgeon, botanist and botanical collector
Martin Wight (1913–1972)English international relations scholar
David Wight (1934–2017)American rower
Peter Wight (born 1950)English actor

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

Surnames like Wight

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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.