# Wentworth (surname)

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

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,023 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,428 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 38,483 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.4% (8,139 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From either the Old English byname Wintra, or Old English winter (“winter”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Wentworth 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Wentworth in the United States, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

## People named Wentworth

- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English earl and politician (1593–1641)
- Martha Wentworth, American actress (1889-1974)
- William Charles Wentworth, Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician (1790-1872)
- Ali Wentworth, American actress
- John Wentworth, American newspaper editor and politician (1815-1888)

## Similar surnames

Wendorf, Winters, Winter, Winder, Weintraub, Wunderlich, Wunder, Winders, Wynter, Winterbottom, Winterton.

## 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.