Waugh

Waugh is the 3,220th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,930 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,300.

By the numbers

People: 10,930
Rank: 3,220th
How common: 1 in 27,300
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Probably from Old English walh (“foreign”), perhaps applied originally to the Welsh-speaking Britons who survived in Scotland well into the Middle Ages.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.7%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Waugh

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)British writer and journalist
Steve Waugh (born 1965)Australian cricketer
Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878)British army officer and Surveyor General of India
Scott Waugh (born 1970)American film director

People named Waugh 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.