Watterson

3,447 people in the United States were counted with the surname Watterson in the 2020 census, making it the 9,108th most common in the country. That is about one person in 86,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,447
Rank: 9,108th
How common: 1 in 86,700
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Derived from an altered form of the given name Walter, which comes from Waltheri, a Germanic name that is derived from walt (power, authority) and heri (army).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Watterson

Bill Watterson (born 1958)American comic artist

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

Surnames like Watterson

Try it on yourself

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.