Ware

At the 2020 census, 47,874 Americans bore the surname Ware — 695th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,243.

By the numbers

People: 47,874
Rank: 695th
How common: 1 in 6,243
Per 100,000: 16.0

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the noun weir.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 46.2%
Black, not Hispanic 43.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ware

Jessie Ware (born 1984)British singer
Hannah Ware (born 1982)English actress
Ruth Ware (born 1977)British author of crime thrillers
Kallistos (Ware) (1934–2022)English theologian
Leon Ware (1940–2017)American recording artist, songwriter and composer
Koko B. Ware (born 1957)American professional wrestler
Pamela Ware (born 1993)Canadian diver
Chris Ware (born 1967)American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and several graphic novels

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

Surnames like Ware

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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.