Wanless
English edit
Etymology edit
Nickname from Middle English wanles (“hopeless, luckless”).
Proper noun edit
Wanless (countable and uncountable, plural Wanlesses)
- A surname from Middle English.
- An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.
Descendants edit
- → Translingual: Wanlessia
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wanless is the 24890th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 999 individuals. Wanless is most common among White (93.49%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wanless”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Middle English
- en:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in West Virginia, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames from nicknames