The surname Wooster
A place surname, carried by 2,419 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈwʊstəɹ/ 2 syllables Soundex W236
Origin
From Worcester in England.
Wooster is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,419 people named Wooster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,634 Americans. That is down 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,541.
Who is named Wooster
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Wooster identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Wooster has the Soundex code W236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W236.
Questions
- Where does the surname Wooster come from?
- From Worcester in England.
- How common is the surname Wooster?
- 2,419 people in the United States had the surname Wooster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,634 Americans. It ranked 12,757th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wooster?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wooster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- How do you pronounce Wooster?
- Wooster is /ˈwʊstəɹ/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Wooster?
- Wooster is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Wooster getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,541 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,419 in 2010, down 4.8%.