Wordsworth
English
Etymology
Variant of Wadsworth.
Proper noun
Wordsworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wordsworths)
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), a major English romantic poet.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wordsworth is the 95545th 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.
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