The surname Woolbright
A surname, carried by 1,390 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W416
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,390 people named Woolbright in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,354.
#19,441
rank among US surnames
1,390
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+2.7%
change since 2000 (was #18,735)
Who is named Woolbright
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Woolbright identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Two or more races 2.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Woolbright
Woolbright has the Soundex code W416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W416.
Questions
- How common is the surname Woolbright?
- 1,390 people in the United States had the surname Woolbright in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,119 Americans. It ranked 19,441st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Woolbright?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Woolbright identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Woolbright getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,354 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,390 in 2010, up 2.7%.