How common is the surname Waldorf?

1,788 people in the United States had the surname Waldorf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,676 Americans. It ranked 16,166th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Waldorf?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Waldorf identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Waldorf getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,788 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Waldorf

A surname, carried by 1,788 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W436

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Waldorf is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

Ultimately from the German town name, Walldorf.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,788 people named Waldorf in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,676 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,798.

#16,166

rank among US surnames

1,788

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #15,052)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,157	Besser	1,790	172,484
#16,161	Amend	1,789	172,580
#16,166	Hayek	1,788	172,676
#16,171	Macario	1,787	172,773

Who is named Waldorf

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Waldorf identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Waldorf

Waldorf has the Soundex code W436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W436.

Questions

Where does the surname Waldorf come from?: Ultimately from the German town name, Walldorf.
How common is the surname Waldorf?: 1,788 people in the United States had the surname Waldorf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,676 Americans. It ranked 16,166th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Waldorf?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Waldorf identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Waldorf getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,788 in 2010, down 0.6%.