The surname Wishart
A Norman surname, carried by 1,930 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W263
Origin
Norman origin
Scottish surname derived from Anglo-Norman Wischard, from the Old French personal name Guiscard. Compare Modern French Guiscard.
One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,930 people named Wishart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,972 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,752.
Who is named Wishart
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Wishart identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
- Two or more races 2.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Whisker
Wishart has the Soundex code W263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W263.
Other Norman surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Wishart come from?
- Scottish surname derived from Anglo-Norman Wischard, from the Old French personal name Guiscard. Compare Modern French Guiscard.
- How common is the surname Wishart?
- 1,930 people in the United States had the surname Wishart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,972 Americans. It ranked 15,238th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wishart?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Wishart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Wishart getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,752 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,930 in 2010, up 10%.
- What are other spellings of Wishart?
- Whisker.