Worth

Worth is the 4,584th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,497 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,497
Rank: 4,584th
How common: 1 in 39,900
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

From Old English worþ (“enclosure”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.1%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Worth

Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895)English fashion designer
Irene Worth (1916–2002)American actress
Taylor Worth (born 1991)Australian archer
Nicholas Worth (1937–2007)American actor
Jennifer Worth (1935–2011)British nurse, author and musician
Constance Worth (1911–1963)Australian actress
Adam Worth (1844–1902)Union United States Army soldier

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

Surnames like Worth

Also a first name

Worth has been given to 2,204 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.