Last Name WAGGONER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The wagoner, a wainman, a carter. Wagon, wain (Duch), a cart for carriage of goods. Probbaly as 'Wainman' was the common English term, Wagner is generally of German importation.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	2,287 (2000 US census)	2,531 (1990 US census)

Count	14,556 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.38%, or 13592 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.62%, or 381 total occurrences, as black,
0.36%, or 52 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.78%, or 114 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.42%, or 207 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 210 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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