Last Name WATTERS

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	A variant of Waters. Similarly Watterson was a variant of Waterson.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish

Rank	2,970 (2000 US census)	3,077 (1990 US census)

Count	11,144 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

85.1%, or 9484 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.43%, or 1162 total occurrences, as black,
0.5%, or 56 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.96%, or 107 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.53%, or 171 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.48%, or 165 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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