Last Name WOOTTON

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Meaning	Local: Of Wootton, a parish in county Bedford, or a parish in county Berks, near Abingdon, also parishes in counties Kent, Lincoln, Northampton, Oxford, Southhampton, Stafford, etc, besides many hamlets and manors scattered all over England. Also Wotton found in a parish in county Surrey. No doubt the origin is Wood-town, the enclosure in the wood.

Origin	English, Irish, South african

Rank	14,302 (2000 US census)	15,007 (1990 US census)

Count	1,921 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.21%, or 1829 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.61%, or 31 total occurrences, as black,
0.36%, or 7 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.26%, or 5 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.88%, or 17 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.67%, or 32 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...