Given name & surname
Wentworth
“winter”·“enclosure”
Wentworth is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Wentworth is built from elements meaning “winter” and “enclosure”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wentworth through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 62
- 62 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 10 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 7 in 1947. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 168 as a first name in 2020; 7,866 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.
People named Wentworth
- Wentworth MillerAmerican and British actorborn 1972
- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonIrish poet 1637-1685
- Wentworth WebsterBasque writer (1828-1907)
- Wentworth SmithEnglish dramatist1571–1614
- Wentworth FitzGerald, 17th Earl of KildareEnglish politician and Irish Earl1634–1664
- Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount AllendaleBritish politician (1860–1923)
- Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount AllendaleBritish peer (1890-1956)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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