The WORCESTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,340	12206	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	765	6829	0.002	15
Change since 1880	+1575	-5377	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	122	11915	0.001	7
United Kingdom	221	15461	0	5

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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 WORCESTER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the WORCESTER surname.

Ethnic distribution of WORCESTER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	56	2.39
Mixed Race	36	1.54
White (Hispanic)	23	0.98
White (Caucasian)	2,204	94.19
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

WORCESTER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of WORCESTER in historical publications

(origin: Local) A county and city of England, which Bailey derives from Sax. Were, a forest, and Cester, a camp or city. I prefer deriving it from Warcester, the city or castle of strife, from the Saxon Woer, war, strife, with which the ancient British name agrees, called Caerwrangon, the castle or fort of strife and contention. It was a boundary for many years between the Britons and Saxons. (See Chester.)

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Similar names to WORCESTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WORCESTER.

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.