# Wax (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,838 |
| US rank (2010) | 15,833 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 167,979 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.0% (1,802 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German and Jewish surname, variant of Wachs. * As an English surname, from the noun wax, compare Waxman.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Wax 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) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Wax in the United States.

## People named Wax

- Ruby Wax, American comedian
- Amy L. Wax, American legal scholar (1953-)

## Similar surnames

Wise, Weiss, Weeks, Waugh, Weis, Wicks, Wiese, Wick, Wyche, Weese, Weise, Wiggs.

## 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.