Wakefield

At the 2020 census, 14,049 Americans bore the surname Wakefield — 2,504th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,300.

By the numbers

People: 14,049
Rank: 2,504th
How common: 1 in 21,300
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.8%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield (born 1956)British former doctor
Rhys Wakefield (born 1988)Australian actor
Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972)British mycologist
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862)UK criminal & New Zealand politician
Tim Wakefield (1966–2023)American professional baseball pitcher
Charity Wakefield (born 1980)British actress
Jenn Wakefield (born 1989)Canadian ice hockey player
Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903–1977)American chef

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

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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.