Last Name WADSWORTH

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Meaning Local: Of Wadsworth, a large township in the parish church of Silkstone the name is variously found as Waddysworth (1556), Wardsworth (1666), and Wordsworth (1668 and forward). Longfellow hadfor his second name Wadsworth, and was on both father and mother's side of Yorkshire lineage. Query was the poetic fire of Wordsworth and Wadsworth Longfellow kindled on the same original hearth. The poet's family must have journeyed by degrees from the Yorkshire border, across Westmoreland, into Cumberland, where, at Cockermouth, John Wordsworth, attorney, was agent for the estate of the first Earl of Lonsdale. His son, the poet, was born there in 1770.
The same as 'Woodsworth,' the farm or place in the wood.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 3,406 (2000 US census) 3,046 (1990 US census)
Count 9,625 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 90.47%, or 8708 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.98%, or 383 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.37%, or 36 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 2.29%, or 220 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.44%, or 139 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.44%, or 139 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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