Weitzel is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Weitzel
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

The is the variation of Wetzel. Descendant of little Varin, a pet form of names beginning with Warin that means "protector," as Warinbert and Warinhari.

Descendant of Wizo, a pet form of names beginning with Wid, i.e., forest, as Witbald and Wittimar, or with Wig that means "fight or sanctify," as Wigibald and Wigbrand.

Surname Weitzel is a variation of the Weitz. Descendant of Wizo, a pet form of names beginning with Wid, i.e., forest, as Witbald and Wittimar, or with Wig that means "fight or sanctify," as Wigibald and Wigbrand.

The lastname Weitzel is variation of Witzel. Variant of Weitz, i.e., descendant of Wizo, a pet form of names beginning with Wid or with Wig.

How popular is Weitzel?

Weitzel is common in United States, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, France.

Weitzel is ranked 37179 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Weitzels plummeted by 5.93 per cent to 4569 since 2000 and slipped by 847 spots and ranked at 7295. The last name was found in around 2 per hundred thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.36 97.16
Hispanic or Latino 2.08 1.42
Others 1.53 0.66
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.46 0.37
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.39 0.23
Black 0.18 0.16
Weitzel is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Luxembourg is ahead in terms of density. Around 14195 people have been found who wears Weitzel as their family name. Weitzel is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Weitzel:
6,382 United States6,817
1,743 Germany6,006
Countries with hundreds of Weitzel:
8,933 Canada461
34,290 Brazil222
20,901 Argentina165
64,161 France149
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
6,537 Chile85
1,898 Luxembourg53
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
53,999 England49
17,650 New Zealand29
53,972 Netherlands26
59,744 Australia26
39,193 Austria23
328,346 Thailand18
40,181 Hungary13
46,196 Switzerland12

Immigrants to US

From Germany

Farmer Cathar. Weitzel from Germany aboard the Phoenix from Bremen. She is registered to be 23 years old when she arrived in USA on September 13, 1852. Friederic Weitzel, aged 24, Carl Weitzel, Farmer Carl Weitzel, Catharina Weitzel, aged 25, Philipp Weitzel, aged 6, Ludwig Weitzel (19), 23 years old C Weitzel, 16 years old H Weitzel, and 235 other Weitzel around 41.79% of whom were farmer while others worked as shoemaker and baker, joiner, daughter, cooper, laborer, merchant, weaver, servant migrated to US from Havre, Antwerp and Bremen.

Weitzel Namesakes

  • Godfrey Weitzel, German-American major general

Weitzel Namesakes

  • Godfrey Weitzel, German-American major general

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