Wears Surname
Approximately 1,349 people bear this surname
Wears Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 641 | 1:565,459 | 46,482 |
| England | 558 | 1:99,853 | 10,553 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 25 | 1:54,559 | 4,614 |
| Pakistan | 18 | 1:9,924,660 | 48,309 |
| Australia | 16 | 1:1,687,231 | 81,699 |
| Scotland | 14 | 1:382,416 | 16,471 |
| New Zealand | 13 | 1:348,333 | 27,379 |
| India | 11 | 1:69,733,217 | 610,955 |
| Bermuda | 10 | 1:6,528 | 1,005 |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 1:17,706,308 | 13,537 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 279 | 1:87,367 | 9,159 |
| Scotland | 18 | 1:207,956 | 7,652 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 98 | 1:512,436 | 35,831 |
Wears Demographics
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Wears Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wears Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wears has its highest incidence in The United States. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wears? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 285,131st most widely held family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 5,402,184 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 51 percent of Wears live; 49 percent live in North America and 49 percent live in Anglo-North America.
Wears is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 641 people, or 1 in 565,459. In The United States Wears is mostly concentrated in: Ohio, where 43 percent live, California, where 8 percent live and West Virginia, where 7 percent live. Besides The United States it exists in 25 countries. It is also found in England, where 41 percent live and Trinidad and Tobago, where 2 percent live.
Wears Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Wears has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 654 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 200 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it contracted 22 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Wears Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Wears surname are 21.65% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 68.42% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Wears earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 17.59% less than the national average, earning $35,559 USD per year and in Canada they earn 16.35% more than the national average, earning $57,805 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Wears
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