Wedgwood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Wedgwood, Staffordshire ('wych-elm wood')
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɛdʒˌwʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wedgwood is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Wedgwood, Staffordshire ('wych-elm wood')
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wedgwood is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An English habitational surname from a place in Staffordshire.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, tdmkfor ceramic ware
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josiah Wedgwoodb. 1730GBEnglish potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)
- Josiah Wedgwood IIb. 1769GBBritish potter (1769-1843)
- Thomas Wedgwoodb. 1771GBBritish photographic experimentor
- Hensleigh Wedgwoodb. 1803GBBritish etymologist (1803-1891)
- Emma Darwinb. 1808GBnot in their usual namewife of Charles Darwin (1808-1896)
- Josiah Wedgwood, Baron Wedgwoodb. 1872GBBritish politician (1872-1943)
- James Ingall Wedgwoodb. 1883GBAmerican bishop (1883-1851)
- Camilla Wedgwoodb. 1901GBBritish anthropologist (1901-1955)
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwoodb. 1910GBEnglish historian (1910–1997)
- Ruth Wedgwoodb. 1949USAmerican legal scholar
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 667 | #9,074 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 210 | #88,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #188,732 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #54,514 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #80,001 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wedgwood mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Wedgwood, Staffordshire ('wych-elm wood') Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wedgwood?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛdʒˌwʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wedgwood have the most bearers?
- Wedgwood is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wedgwoodThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wedgwood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.