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    The surname Wortham

    An English place surname, carried by 5,358 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W635

    Wortham: #6,358 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wortham #6,358, 5,358 people Wortham: #6,358 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wortham #6,358, 5,358 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wortham is more common than 96.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English worþ (“enclosure”) + hām (“homestead”).

    Wortham 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 5,358 people named Wortham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 57,623 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,387.

    #6,358
    rank among US surnames
    5,358
    people in 2010
    1.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #5,882)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,349Casiano5,36957,505
    #6,350Studer5,36857,516
    #6,351Carruthers5,36757,527
    #6,352Brewington5,36657,537
    #6,353Kreider5,36557,548
    #6,355Howlett5,36457,559
    #6,356Tarango5,36057,602

    Who is named Wortham

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

    50% of people named Wortham identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 50%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 43%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Wortham

    Wortham has the Soundex code W635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W635.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wortham come from?
    From Old English worþ (“enclosure”) + hām (“homestead”).
    How common is the surname Wortham?
    5,358 people in the United States had the surname Wortham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,623 Americans. It ranked 6,358th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wortham?
    In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Wortham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Wortham?
    Wortham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wortham getting more or less common?
    Less common. 5,387 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,358 in 2010, down 0.5%.