Waring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Norman personal name Warin, ultimately from a Germanic name element warin 'guard'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɛɹɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waring is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 30K
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
4,330 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Norman personal name Warin, ultimately from a Germanic name element warin 'guard'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waring counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,330 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Waring | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 6.8K | Waring | 197 |
| AU Australia | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Waring | 112 |
| CA Canada | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Waring | 89 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Waring | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Waring | 37 |
4,330 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Waring is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, present participle and gerund of ware
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, tdmk. for small appliances; pers.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In bik, to wear shoes on the wrong feet, gloves on the wrong hands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Edward Waringb. 1736GBEnglish mathematician
- George E. Waring, Jr.b. 1833USAmerican engineer
- Fred Waringb. 1900USAmerican musician (1900–1984)
- Tom Waringb. 1906GBEnglish footballer (1906-1980)
- Richard Waringb. 1910GBEnglish-born American actor (1911-1993)
- James Waringb. 1922USChoreographer and director (1922–1975)
- Derek Waringb. 1927GBBritish actor (1927-2007)
- Marilyn Waringb. 1952NZNew Zealand politician and academic
- Todd Waringb. 1955USAmerican actor
- Stephanie Waringb. 1978GBEnglish actress
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6.8K | #1,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.3K | #7,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,711 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Waring mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Norman personal name Warin, ultimately from a Germanic name element warin 'guard'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Waring?
- A machine transcription gives /wɛɹɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Waring have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Waring, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waring.
- How common is the name Waring?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,330 people named Waring in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waringThe 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
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Waring”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.