The surname Wardwell
A surname, carried by 1,686 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W634
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,686 people named Wardwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,123 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,583.
#16,894
rank among US surnames
1,686
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.5%
change since 2000 (was #16,655)
Who is named Wardwell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Wardwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Wardwell has the Soundex code W634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W634.
Questions
- How common is the surname Wardwell?
- 1,686 people in the United States had the surname Wardwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,123 Americans. It ranked 16,894th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wardwell?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wardwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Wardwell getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,583 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,686 in 2010, up 6.5%.