as a Last Name
- 213,787
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named West
Meaning & Origins
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a regional name for someone who had migrated from further west.
| 109th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Weston, Westbrook, Westfall, Westmoreland, Westphal, Wester, Westcott, Westerman, Westover, Westerfield
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 213,787
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named West per capita
Top state populations
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