Last Name WORDSWORTH

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Meaning Local: Of Wadsworth, a large township in the parish church of Silkstone the name is variously found as Waddysworth (1556), Wardsworth (1666), and Wordsworth (1668 and forward). Longfellow hadfor his second name Wadsworth, and was on both father and mother's side of Yorkshire lineage. Query was the poetic fire of Wordsworth and Wadsworth Longfellow kindled on the same original hearth. The poet's family must have journeyed by degrees from the Yorkshire border, across Westmoreland, into Cumberland, where, at Cockermouth, John Wordsworth, attorney, was agent for the estate of the first Earl of Lonsdale. His son, the poet, was born there in 1770.
Local: Of Wadsworth.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 98,298 (2000 US census) 34,390 (1990 US census)
Count 171 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 66.08%, or 113 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 31.58%, or 54 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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