The surname Waddy
A surname, carried by 1,844 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W300
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,844 people named Waddy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,433 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,742.
#15,792
rank among US surnames
1,844
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+5.9%
change since 2000 (was #15,439)
Who is named Waddy
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Waddy identified as Black (not Hispanic), 15% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 78%
- White (not Hispanic) 15%
- Two or more races 4.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Waddy has the Soundex code W300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W300.
Questions
- How common is the surname Waddy?
- 1,844 people in the United States had the surname Waddy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,433 Americans. It ranked 15,792nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Waddy?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Waddy identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 15% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Waddy getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,742 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,844 in 2010, up 5.9%.