Weight Surname

111,146th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,180 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Isle of Man

Weight Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an official title. 'the wait,' i.e. the watchman (v. Wayt and Wait). This, of course, is an imitative form. Weight conveyed a meaning when the original sense of Wait was forgotten.

1610. Buried — Richard Weight, free of the Poulterer: St.

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Weight Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,9631:184,64518,409
England8881:62,7467,375
Australia6921:39,0115,060
Saudi Arabia2391:129,10417,726
New Zealand1001:45,2837,455
Canada891:413,99536,402
South Africa561:967,45960,627
Ireland291:162,3777,171
Iran191:4,041,185108,332
Zimbabwe101:1,543,82478,460
Isle of Man101:8,5821,778
Scotland91:594,86921,724
Wales81:386,81619,671
India81:95,883,173728,828
Nigeria71:25,306,108327,793
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Spain31:15,584,012120,866
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Hong Kong31:2,445,1619,595
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
China21:683,660,78330,601
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Mexico21:62,063,10283,384
Puerto Rico21:1,775,0706,602
Pakistan21:89,321,942157,560
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Barbados11:287,4482,772
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland21:2,214,93333,683
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England6371:38,2664,920
Wales441:35,6461,944
Scotland41:935,80421,348
Jersey11:51,8823,898
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States7571:66,3397,211

Weight (278) may also be a first name.

Weight Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from an official title. 'the wait,' i.e. the watchman (v. Wayt and Wait). This, of course, is an imitative form. Weight conveyed a meaning when the original sense of Wait was forgotten.

1610. Buried — Richard Weight, free of the Poulterer: St. Peter, Cornhill.

1805. Married — Samuel Weight and Joyce Smith: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Most probably from the Old English personal name Wiht. Thomas Whight, burgois de Seint John de Perth, rendered homage, 1291 (RR.). A family of this name was settled about Ormiston, East Lothian, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. James Wicht was prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity in Edinburgh, 1554 (Soltre, p. 200). Alexander Wycht was a monk of Inchaffray, 1555 (Inchaffray, p. xcix), John Weycht is recorded in Auchtinraicht in the same year (Protocols, I), and Hendrie Veycht and Riche Wycht were tenants on lands of the Abbey of Kelso, 1567 (Kelso, p. 519,520). Weight 1686.

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

For Wait(e, q.v.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

1. The Anglo-Saxon wiht means a man, a creature, any thing; and the O. Eng, night, still retained in the phrase "luckless wight," has a similar signification. Another and more usual meaning of the word, is swift or active, as in the illustrative quotation of Halliwell: —

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Weight Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Weight Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Weight is found most in The United States. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Weight click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Weight? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 111,146th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 1,743,432 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 49 percent of Weight are found; 49 percent are found in North America and 48 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Weight is also the 532,586th most numerous first name in the world. It is borne by 278 people.

This last name is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 1,963 people, or 1 in 184,645. In The United States it is most numerous in: Utah, where 37 percent are found, California, where 9 percent are found and Pennsylvania, where 8 percent are found. Other than The United States Weight occurs in 44 countries. It is also found in England, where 21 percent are found and Australia, where 17 percent are found.

Weight Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Weight has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Weight surname expanded 259 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 139 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it expanded 1,450 percent between 1901 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 225 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it contracted 82 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Weight Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is chiefly Presbyterian (50%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Weight surname are 25.45% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 72.22% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Weight earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 120.27% more than the national average, earning R 523,452 per year; in United States they earn 9.6% more than the national average, earning $47,292 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.58% more than the national average, earning $54,940 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wight9115,050/
Waight832,669/
Whight83459/
Beight83301/
Veight8357/
Wights8314/
Wieght836/
Wighte833/
Wightt831/
Weaght831/
Weiget831/
Weigdt831/
Wheght830/
Woight830/
Weighd830/
Weighed771,037/
Veights778/
Weigett777/
Waiight773/
Whaight771/
Waightt771/
Weigget771/
Wheiget771/
Whighte770/
Wyght7333/
Vight7330/
Bight7326/
Waght732/
Beght730/
Veght730/
Voight675,270/
Veghte67135/
Voeght6724/
Veghts6724/
Waught6712/
Vaight678/
Huight678/
Boight677/
Vioght675/
Wasght671/
Beghtt671/
Wought670/
Baight670/
Vighte670/
Vieght670/

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