The surname Worsham
An English place surname, carried by 5,631 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W625
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name Wulfmǣr + -s- + hām (“homestead”).
Worsham 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 5,631 people named Worsham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,830 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,717.
Who is named Worsham
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
80% of people named Worsham identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 80%
- Black (not Hispanic) 14%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Wisham
Worsham has the Soundex code W625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W625.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Worsham come from?
- From the Old English personal name Wulfmǣr + -s- + hām (“homestead”).
- How common is the surname Worsham?
- 5,631 people in the United States had the surname Worsham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,830 Americans. It ranked 6,091st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Worsham?
- In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Worsham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Worsham?
- Worsham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Worsham getting more or less common?
- Less common. 5,717 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,631 in 2010, down 1.5%.
- What are other spellings of Worsham?
- Wisham.