Wedel is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Scotland, Germany. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Wedel
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Ireland, Scotland, Germany
Meaning:

Descendant of Wedel meaning "to move"; dweller at Wada's hill; one who came from Wadley, ie., Wada's wood or meadow, in Berkshire.

How popular is Wedel?

Wedel is common in Germany, United States, Denmark, Canada, Sweden, South Africa.

Wedel is ranked 50003 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Wedel bearers increased by 3.36 per cent in 2010 US census to 2830 since 2000, the surname slipped by 466 spots and ranked at 11174. The last name was found in around 10 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.12 96.09
Hispanic or Latino 2.51 1.5
Others 1.17 1.31
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.6 0.37
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.32 0.47
Black 0.28 0.26
Wedel is quite popular family name mostly used in Germany while Denmark is ahead in terms of density. Around 10282 people have been found who wears Wedel as their family name. Wedel is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Wedel:
2,045 Germany5,183
11,054 United States3,643
Countries with hundreds of Wedel:
1,065 Denmark506
13,927 Canada274
6,261 Sweden116
42,583 South Africa101
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
32,204 Australia68
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
38,971 Netherlands49
63,675 England38
72,414 Poland37
28,356 Austria36
12,866 Chile35
2,141 Costa Rica32
19,635 Norway32
174,290 Brazil28
315,217 Thailand20
14,761 Ireland13
83,447 Papua New Guinea11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
86,878 Spain8
69,697 Switzerland7
336,266 France7
190,047 Argentina6
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Immigrants to US

From Germany

Farmer Dan Wedel from Germany aboard the Jersey from Havre. He is registered to be 25 years old when he arrived in USA on September 11, 1850. 3 years old Carl Wedel, Emilie Wedel, aged 10, Hanna Wedel (43), Laborer Marlm. Wedel, Oscar Wedel, aged 5, 7 years old Wilhelmine Wedel, Catherine Wedel, aged 20, 9 years old Gustav Wedel, Heinrich Wedel, Malwine Wedel, aged 3, and 243 other Wedel around 39.64% of whom were farmer while others worked as laborer and joiner, servant, baker, daughter, tailor, miller, carpenter, spinster, merchant, butcher, clerk migrated to US from Bremen, Havre and Hamburg.

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