Last Name WOOLMAN

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Meaning	The woolman, a wool-buyer. he original emigrant started moving to America early in 17th century.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	23,698 (2000 US census)	29,423 (1990 US census)

Count	997 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.47%, or 902 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.6%, or 6 total occurrences, as black,
1.4%, or 14 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
3.31%, or 33 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.81%, or 28 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.4%, or 14 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Ukrainian middle names

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.