as a Last Name
- 224
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Wemyss
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: habitational name from Wemyss in Fife, named from Old Gaelic uaim ‘cave’, with the addition of the Middle English plural suffix -s. The name is traditionally pronounced ‘weems’.
| 70,969th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 224
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Wemyss per capita
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