Wentworth

At the 2020 census, 7,866 Americans bore the surname Wentworth — 4,358th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,866
Rank: 4,358th
How common: 1 in 38,000
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either the Old English byname Wintra, or Old English winter (“winter”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wentworth

Thomas Wentworth (1593–1641)1st Earl of Strafford, English earl and politician
Martha Wentworth (1889–1974)American actress
William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872)Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician
Ali Wentworth (born 1965)American actress
Patricia Wentworth (1877–1961)British writer

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

Surnames like Wentworth

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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.