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    The surname Wigton

    An English place surname, carried by 754 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W235

    Wigton: #30,863 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wigton #30,863, 754 people Wigton: #30,863 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Wigton #30,863, 754 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wigton is more common than 81% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Wicga, a byname from wicga (“earwig”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Wigton 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 754 people named Wigton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 409,477 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 842.

    #30,863
    rank among US surnames
    754
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.5%
    change since 2000 (was #27,049)

    Who is named Wigton

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

    96% of people named Wigton identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wigton

    Wigton has the Soundex code W235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W235.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wigton come from?
    From the Old English personal name Wicga, a byname from wicga (“earwig”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Wigton?
    754 people in the United States had the surname Wigton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 409,477 Americans. It ranked 30,863rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wigton?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wigton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Wigton?
    Wigton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wigton getting more or less common?
    Less common. 842 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 754 in 2010, down 11%.