How common is the surname Woolverton?

1,119 people in the United States had the surname Woolverton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 275,912 Americans. It ranked 22,880th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Woolverton?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Woolverton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Woolverton getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,151 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,119 in 2010, down 2.8%.

The surname Woolverton

An English place surname, carried by 1,119 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex W416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Woolverton is more common than 85.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

From the Old English personal name Wulfhere, which is composed of the elements wulf (“wolf”) and here (“army”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Woolverton 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 1,119 people named Woolverton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 275,912 Americans. That is down 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,151.

#22,880

rank among US surnames

1,119

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-2.8%

change since 2000 (was #21,244)

Who is named Woolverton

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

94% of people named Woolverton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Two or more races 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Woolverton

Woolverton has the Soundex code W416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W416.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Woolverton come from?: From the Old English personal name Wulfhere, which is composed of the elements wulf (“wolf”) and here (“army”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Woolverton?: 1,119 people in the United States had the surname Woolverton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 275,912 Americans. It ranked 22,880th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Woolverton?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Woolverton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Woolverton?: Woolverton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Woolverton getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,151 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,119 in 2010, down 2.8%.