Introduction

George Weber Family Photograph These documents are the results of Schommer and Weber family members who performed genealogic research, and others who kept their own individual records, accounts, and photographs and were kind enough to share them.

Surname Origin

The WEBER surname was a trade name given to one skilled in the ancient craft of weaving, from the Middle High German word "wëber," which means weaver. WEAVER is the English variant of this surname.

Statistics

The surname WEBER is identified by the U.S. Bureau of the Census as a surname with more than 100 occurrences in the United States for the year-2000 U.S. Census. In "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000", the Census Bureau tabulated the surnames of all people who had obtained Social Security Numbers by the year 2000. WEBER ranks at number 252 in terms of the most common surnames in the United States for 2000. WEBER had 107,866 occurrences in the 2000 Census, according the U.S. government records. Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, WEBER would occur an average of 39.99 times.