Ordway

Ordway is the 11,585th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,596 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,596
Rank: 11,585th
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name Ordwīġ, which is composed of the elements ord (“point of a spear”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ordway described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ordway

Melissa Ordway (born 1983)American actress

People named Ordway with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ordway

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.