# Waugh (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/waugh/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 11,387 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,171 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 27,114 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.0% (11,052 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /wɑ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Probably from Old English walh (“foreign”), perhaps applied originally to the Welsh-speaking Britons who survived in Scotland well into the Middle Ages.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Waugh in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Waugh in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Waugh

- Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
- Andrew Scott Waugh, British army officer and Surveyor General of India (1810-1878)
- Scott Waugh, American film director
- Jesse Waugh, American artist
- Frederick Judd Waugh, American artist (1861-1940)
- Hillary Waugh, American mystery novelist (1920-2008)

## Similar surnames

Wu, Wash, Wise, Weiss, Weeks, Weis, Wicks, Wiese, Wick, Wyche, Weese, Weise.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.