Last Name WEYLAND

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Meaning Local: Of Wayland, a hundred in the county of Norfolk. There is no evidence in favor of a personal origin, although Wayland was familiar to legendary history.
Local: From the Dutch, "Weiland," pasture-ground, meadow-land.
Origin English, Irish, Belgian

Rank 37,266 (2000 US census) 41,654 (1990 US census)
Count 563 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.67%, or 533 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 1.07%, or 6 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.78%, or 10 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.42%, or 8 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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