Walcott

4,363 people in the United States were counted with the surname Walcott in the 2020 census, making it the 7,368th most common in the country. That is about one person in 68,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,363
Rank: 7,368th
How common: 1 in 68,500
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English wealh (“foreigner, Briton, Welshman”) + cot (“cottage”); compare the doublet.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 49.5%
White, not Hispanic 38.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Walcott

Derek Walcott (1930–2017)Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
Theo Walcott (born 1989)English association football player
Keshorn Walcott (born 1993)Trinidadian javelin thrower
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927)American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian
Jersey Joe Walcott (1914–1994)American boxer
Gregory Walcott (1928–2015)actor
Jennifer Walcott (born 1977)American model
Collin Walcott (1945–1984)American musician, ethnomusicologist

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

Surnames like Walcott

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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.