Wainwright

At the 2020 census, 6,593 Americans bore the surname Wainwright — 5,132nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 45,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,593
Rank: 5,132nd
How common: 1 in 45,300
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From Old English wægnwyrhta, equivalent to wain (“large wagon for farm use”) + wright (“worker; maker”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright (born 1973)American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
Martha Wainwright (born 1976)Canadian-American singer-songwriter
Loudon Wainwright III (born 1946)American singer-songwriter, humorist, and actor
Helen Wainwright (1906–1965)American swimmer, diver, Olympic silver medalist, former world record-holder
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (1883–1953)United States Army general, Medal of Honor recipient
Adam Wainwright (born 1981)American baseball player

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

Surnames like Wainwright

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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.