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    The surname Woolridge

    A surname, carried by 2,939 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W463

    Woolridge: #10,835 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Woolridge #10,835, 2,939 people Woolridge: #10,835 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Woolridge #10,835, 2,939 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Woolridge 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 2,939 people named Woolridge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,051 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,825.

    #10,835
    rank among US surnames
    2,939
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #10,446)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,826Barillas2,942104,944
    #10,829Nault2,941104,980
    #10,834Tullos2,940105,015
    #10,835Woolridge2,939105,051
    #10,837Menon2,938105,087
    #10,844Fedor2,937105,123

    Who is named Woolridge

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

    56% of people named Woolridge identified as Black (not Hispanic), 37% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 56%
    • White (not Hispanic) 37%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Woolridge

    Woolridge has the Soundex code W463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W463.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Woolridge?
    2,939 people in the United States had the surname Woolridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,051 Americans. It ranked 10,835th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Woolridge?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Woolridge identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 37% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Woolridge getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,825 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,939 in 2010, up 4.0%.