# Walcott (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/walcott/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,346 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,641 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 71,041 people |
| Change since 2000 | +15% (3,786 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English wealh (“foreigner, Briton, Welshman”) + cot (“cottage”); compare the doublet Walcot.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Walcott in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 43% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 49% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.0% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Walcott in the United States.

## People named Walcott

- Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850-1927)
- Gregory Walcott, actor (1928-2015)
- Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist, photographer, botanist and naturalist (1860-1940)
- Jennifer Walcott, American model
- Collin Walcott, American musician, ethnomusicologist (1945–1984)
- Dorothy Walcott Weeks, American mathematician
- Frederic C. Walcott, American politician (1869-1949)

## Similar surnames

Wolcott, Walston, Wahlstrom, Woolston, Wolstenholme.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.