Wyman

10,692 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wyman in the 2020 census, making it the 3,300th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,692
Rank: 3,300th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

As an English surname, from the Old English personal name Wīġmund, composed of the elements wīġ (“war, battle”) + mund (“security, protection”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wyman

Jane Wyman (1917–2007)American actress
Bill Wyman (born 1936)British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones

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

Surnames like Wyman

Wymer

Also a first name

Wyman has been given to 3,066 American babies as a first name since 1898, peaking in 1922. 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.