Worington Surname

10,311,814th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
South Africa

Worington Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Worington Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England31:8,125,123158,686
Scotland21:1,871,60827,884
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States301:1,673,95687,330

Worington Last Name Facts

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

The surname Worington occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Worington? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 10,311,814th most frequently occurring family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. The last name Worington occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 67 percent of Worington live; 67 percent live in North America and 67 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 181,229,466. In The United States it is mostly found in: Alabama, where 50 percent reside and North Carolina, where 50 percent reside. Outside of The United States it exists in one country. It also occurs in South Africa, where 33 percent reside.

Worington Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Worington has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Worington surname fell 93 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Worington
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