Woodards Surname

619,831st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 496 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
New Zealand

Woodards Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Woodards Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3871:936,58670,075
England711:784,76142,668
Australia281:964,13257,058
New Zealand61:754,72041,661
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England491:497,45727,315
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States271:1,859,95194,590

Woodards Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Woodards Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Woodards is found in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Woodards? popularity and diffusion

It is the 619,831st most frequent surname globally, held by around 1 in 14,692,633 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 78 percent of Woodards are found; 78 percent are found in North America and 78 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname Woodards is most frequently held in The United States, where it is borne by 387 people, or 1 in 936,586. In The United States Woodards is most frequent in: Illinois, where 18 percent live, California, where 13 percent live and New Jersey, where 12 percent live. Other than The United States this surname occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in England, where 14 percent live and Australia, where 6 percent live.

Woodards Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Woodards has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Woodards last name grew 1,433 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 145 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Woodards Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Woodards surname are 7.66% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 54.43% being registered with the party.

Woodards earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 23.42% less than the national average, earning $33,044 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Woodards
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