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The WYATT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 50,874 604 0.019 189
United States (1880 census) 9,798 616 0.02 196
Change since 1880 +41076 +12 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 2,477 647 0.015 152
United Kingdom 11,152 538 0.024 243
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 WYATT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the WYATT 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 WYATT 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 WYATT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 916 1.8
Mixed Race 763 1.5
Native American/Alaskan 280 0.55
Asian/Pacific 173 0.34
White (Caucasian) 39,621 77.88
Black/African American 9,122 17.93

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

Meaning of WYATT in historical publications

WYATT. Has gone through the various forms of Wyat, Wiat, Wyot, and Guyot, or Guiot. The last-named three are used indifferently in the time of King John, and clearly prove the derivation of the name as a diminuti\'e, from the Norman-French personal name Gui or Guido, which we have also received in the form of Guj'. The name Guyatt is still found in West Sussex.

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 WYATT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WYATT.

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 WYATT

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