Woolsey

Woolsey is the 5,134th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,589 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,589
Rank: 5,134th
How common: 1 in 45,400
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Variant of Wolsey.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Woolsey

R. James Woolsey, Jr. (1941–2026)American lawyer, diplomat and politician, former director of the CIA
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905)American writer
Lynn Woolsey (born 1937)American politician
Robert Woolsey (1888–1938)American comedian

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

Surnames like Woolsey

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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.