Wolcott

At the 2020 census, 5,170 Americans bore the surname Wolcott — 6,323rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,170
Rank: 6,323rd
How common: 1 in 57,800
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a place in Somerset, from Old English wielle (“well, spring”) + cot (“cottage, shelter”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Wolcott

Oliver Wolcott (1760–1833)United States federal judge; second U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Oliver Wolcott (1726–1797)American politician, Connecticut
Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990)American photographer
Josiah O. Wolcott (1877–1938)American politician and jurist

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

Surnames like Wolcott

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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.