Last Name WARDEN

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Meaning	The warden (churchwarden, way-warden). Onother option is someone from parishes in counties Kent, Northumberland, Northants, and Bedford.

Origin	English, Irish, Belgian, South african

Rank	3,028 (2000 US census)	2,463 (1990 US census)

Count	10,970 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

89.4%, or 9807 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
4.91%, or 539 total occurrences, as black,
0.46%, or 50 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.03%, or 113 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.83%, or 201 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.36%, or 259 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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