Wiseman

At the 2020 census, 18,529 Americans bore the surname Wiseman — 1,904th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,100.

By the numbers

People: 18,529
Rank: 1,904th
How common: 1 in 16,100
Per 100,000: 6.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.4%
Black, not Hispanic 6.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Wiseman

Reid Wiseman (born 1975)American astronaut
Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009)Canadian actor
Len Wiseman (born 1973)American film director
Frederick Wiseman (1930–2026)American documentary filmmaker
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (1802–1865)diocesan Bishop, philosopher and theologian
James Wiseman (born 2001)American basketball player
Richard Wiseman (born 1966)British psychologist
Scott Wiseman (born 1985)British footballer

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

Surnames like Wiseman

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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.