The surname Warder
An English place surname, carried by 633 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W636
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname, from the village of Wardour, Wiltshire, named with Old English weard (“guard”) + ōra (“bank, slope”).
Warder is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 633 people named Warder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 487,750 Americans. That is down 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 675.
Who is named Warder
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Warder identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
- Two or more races 2.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Warder
Warder has the Soundex code W636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W636.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Warder come from?
- Habitational surname, from the village of Wardour, Wiltshire, named with Old English weard (“guard”) + ōra (“bank, slope”).
- How common is the surname Warder?
- 633 people in the United States had the surname Warder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 487,750 Americans. It ranked 35,537th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Warder?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Warder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Warder?
- Warder is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Warder getting more or less common?
- Less common. 675 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 633 in 2010, down 6.2%.