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The WATT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,872 2246 0.006 55
United States (1880 census) 4,388 1422 0.009 88
Change since 1880 +10484 -824 -0.003 -33
Other Countries
Australia 4,703 315 0.029 288
United Kingdom 14,323 414 0.031 312
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of WATT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the WATT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the WATT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of WATT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 274 1.84
White (Hispanic) 254 1.71
Asian/Pacific 167 1.12
Native American/Alaskan 150 1.01
White (Caucasian) 12,040 80.96
Black/African American 1,988 13.37

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the WATT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of WATT in historical publications

WATT. WATTS. 1. See Walter. 2. The family of Watts of Hawkesdale Hall, CO. Cumberland, deduce themselves from Sir John le Fleming, lord of Wath, on Dearu, co. York, who died 14. Edw. II. His second son Raynier assumed the territorial name De Wath, and his descendants gradually corrupted that designation to its present form. In temp. Edward III. it was De Wath or Wathes ; temp. Henry VI., Wattys ; temp. Henry VII., Wattes ; temp. Charles I., and subsequently, Watts. See B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to WATT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WATT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for WATT

The following words are slight variants of WATT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.