Wyatt

At the 2020 census, 50,142 Americans bore the surname Wyatt — 662nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,961.

By the numbers

People: 50,142
Rank: 662nd
How common: 1 in 5,961
Per 100,000: 16.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Ultimately from the Old English personal name Wigheard, from wīg (“war”) + heard (“hard, brave”), later also used as a Middle English diminutive of the names Guy and William.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.0%
Black, not Hispanic 18.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wyatt

Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)English poet and diplomat
Bray Wyatt (1987–2023)American professional wrestler
Jane Wyatt (1910–2006)American actress
Robert Wyatt (born 1945)English recording artist; musician, songwriter, singer
Kimberly Wyatt (born 1982)American dancer and choreographer
Ron Wyatt (1933–1999)American amateur archaeologist
Thomas Wyatt (1521–1554)English rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I
James Wyatt (1746–1813)English architect;

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

Surnames like Wyatt

Wyant

Also a first name

Wyatt has been given to 209,814 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2017. 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.