How common is the surname Wardlaw?

3,337 people in the United States had the surname Wardlaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,522 Americans. It ranked 9,720th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Wardlaw getting more or less common?

More common. 3,141 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,337 in 2010, up 6.2%.

The surname Wardlaw

An English place surname, carried by 3,337 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W634

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wardlaw is more common than 94% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname typical of Scotland, from Old English weard (“watchman”) + hlǣw (“hill, mound”).

Wardlaw 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 3,337 people named Wardlaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,522 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,141.

#9,720

rank among US surnames

3,337

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+6.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,491)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,712	Hallam	3,340	92,439
#9,716	Haskin	3,339	92,466
#9,720	Mandell	3,337	92,522
#9,722	Mower	3,336	92,550
#9,727	Nevels	3,335	92,577
#9,728	Vale	3,334	92,605

Who is named Wardlaw

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

59% of people named Wardlaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 59%
Black (not Hispanic) 35%
Two or more races 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Wordlaw

Surnames that sound like Wardlaw

Wardlaw has the Soundex code W634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W634.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Wardlaw come from?: Habitational surname typical of Scotland, from Old English weard (“watchman”) + hlǣw (“hill, mound”).
How common is the surname Wardlaw?: 3,337 people in the United States had the surname Wardlaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,522 Americans. It ranked 9,720th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wardlaw?: In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Wardlaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Wardlaw?: Wardlaw is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Wardlaw getting more or less common?: More common. 3,141 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,337 in 2010, up 6.2%.
What are other spellings of Wardlaw?: Wordlaw.