How common is the surname Wortman?

4,572 people in the United States had the surname Wortman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,530 Americans. It ranked 7,291st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wortman?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wortman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wortman getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,612 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,572 in 2010, down 0.9%.

The surname Wortman

A surname, carried by 4,572 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W635

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wortman is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,572 people named Wortman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,530 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,612.

#7,291

rank among US surnames

4,572

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.9%

change since 2000 (was #6,737)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,283	Dickenson	4,575	67,485
#7,284	Swick	4,574	67,500
#7,287	Mariani	4,573	67,515
#7,291	Wortman	4,572	67,530
#7,292	Clair	4,571	67,544
#7,293	Via	4,570	67,559

Who is named Wortman

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

94% of people named Wortman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wortman

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

Questions

How common is the surname Wortman?: 4,572 people in the United States had the surname Wortman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,530 Americans. It ranked 7,291st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wortman?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wortman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wortman getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,612 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,572 in 2010, down 0.9%.