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    The surname Watlington

    An English place surname, carried by 1,816 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex W345

    Watlington: #15,985 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Watlington #15,985, 1,816 people Watlington: #15,985 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Watlington #15,985, 1,816 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Watlington is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From an unattested Old English personal name + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Watlington 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 1,816 people named Watlington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,014 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,575.

    #15,985
    rank among US surnames
    1,816
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +15.3%
    change since 2000 (was #16,721)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,978Doris1,817169,920
    #15,985Manges1,816170,014

    Who is named Watlington

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

    49% of people named Watlington identified as Black (not Hispanic), 46% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 49%
    • White (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Watlington

    Watlington has the Soundex code W345, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W345.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Watlington come from?
    From an unattested Old English personal name + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Watlington?
    1,816 people in the United States had the surname Watlington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,014 Americans. It ranked 15,985th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Watlington?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Watlington identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 46% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Watlington?
    Watlington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Watlington getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,575 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,816 in 2010, up 15%.
    What are other spellings of Watlington?
    Wadlington.