The surname Wada
A Japanese surname, carried by 1,712 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W300
Origin
Japanese origin
Borrowed from Japanese 和田 (Wada).
One of 123 Japanese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,712 people named Wada in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,342 Americans. That is down 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,791.
Who is named Wada
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
74% of people named Wada identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 11% as white (not Hispanic) and 8.2% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 74%
- White (not Hispanic) 11%
- Two or more races 8.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Wada has the Soundex code W300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W300.
Other Japanese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Wada come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 和田 (Wada).
- How common is the surname Wada?
- 1,712 people in the United States had the surname Wada in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,342 Americans. It ranked 16,716th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wada?
- In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Wada identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 11% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Wada getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,791 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,712 in 2010, down 4.4%.