Wiltshire

Wiltshire is the 11,001st most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,761 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 108,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,761
Rank: 11,001st
How common: 1 in 108,000
Per 100,000: 0.92

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Wilteschire, from Old English Wiltūnsċīr (Wiltescire 1086 Domesday Book), named after the town of Wilton in the county (Old English).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.2%
Black, not Hispanic 29.5%
Hispanic or Latino 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Wiltshire

Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974)Architectural artist

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

Surnames like Wiltshire

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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.