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The surname Worster

A surname, carried by 1,370 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W623

Worster: #19,671 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Worster #19,671, 1,370 people Worster: #19,671 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Worster #19,671, 1,370 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Worster is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,370 people named Worster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,412.

#19,671
rank among US surnames
1,370
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-3%
change since 2000 (was #18,177)

Who is named Worster

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

95% of people named Worster identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Worster

Worster has the Soundex code W623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W623.

Questions

How common is the surname Worster?
1,370 people in the United States had the surname Worster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,362 Americans. It ranked 19,671st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Worster?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Worster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
Is the surname Worster getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,412 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,370 in 2010, down 3.0%.