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    The surname Wormington

    An English place surname, carried by 542 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W655

    Wormington: #40,371 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wormington #40,371, 542 people Wormington: #40,371 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Wormington #40,371, 542 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wormington is more common than 75.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name *Wyrma + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

    Wormington 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 542 people named Wormington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 569,641 Americans. That is down 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 572.

    #40,371
    rank among US surnames
    542
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #36,807)

    Who is named Wormington

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

    93% of people named Wormington identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wormington

    Wormington has the Soundex code W655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W655.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wormington come from?
    From the Old English personal name *Wyrma + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
    How common is the surname Wormington?
    542 people in the United States had the surname Wormington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 569,641 Americans. It ranked 40,371st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wormington?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Wormington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Wormington?
    Wormington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wormington getting more or less common?
    Less common. 572 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 542 in 2010, down 5.2%.