Wordsworth

English

Etymology

Variant of Wadsworth.

Proper noun

Wordsworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wordsworths)

1. A habitational surname from Old English.
2. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), a major English romantic poet.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wordsworth is the 95545^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 191 individuals. Wordsworth is most common among White (63.87%) and Black/African American (32.46%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wordsworth”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• “Wordsworth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.