Given name & surname
Wadsworth
“from the estate near the ford”
Wadsworth is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the estate near the ford.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the estate near the ford.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wadsworth through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76
- 76 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1944. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,557 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wadsworth’s family of names
Wadsworth has a related form in Waddsworth. Wadsworth has a related form in Waddsworthe. Wadsworth has a related form in Wadsworthe.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Wadsworth
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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