Wisdom

At the 2020 census, 6,709 Americans bore the surname Wisdom — 5,065th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,709
Rank: 5,065th
How common: 1 in 44,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Wisdom

Norman Wisdom (1915–2010)English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter
Robert Wisdom (born 1953)American actor
Andre Wisdom (born 1993)English association football player
Tom Wisdom (born 1973)English actor
John Wisdom (1904–1993)British philosopher

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

Surnames like Wisdom

Also a first name

Wisdom has been given to 2,189 American babies as a first name since 1988, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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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.