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    The surname Woodham

    A surname, carried by 2,928 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W350

    Woodham: #10,886 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Woodham #10,886, 2,928 people Woodham: #10,886 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Woodham #10,886, 2,928 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Woodham is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,928 people named Woodham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,446 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,853.

    #10,886
    rank among US surnames
    2,928
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #10,340)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,880Midgett2,930105,374
    #10,882Marciano2,929105,410
    #10,886Nova2,928105,446
    #10,889Linker2,927105,482
    #10,890Divine2,926105,518
    #10,891Lesley2,925105,554
    #10,894Jelinek2,924105,590

    Who is named Woodham

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

    88% of people named Woodham identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.9%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Woodham

    Woodham has the Soundex code W350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W350.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Woodham?
    2,928 people in the United States had the surname Woodham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,446 Americans. It ranked 10,886th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Woodham?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Woodham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Woodham getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,928 in 2010, up 2.6%.