Worster
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Worster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,370 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- IEIreland≈1 in 52Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 130K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 190Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
1,370 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Worster is found
(measured from records)Worster 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 | 1,370 | 1 in 243K | 1.4K | Worster | 227 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 306 | Worster | 78 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 512K | — | Worster | 40 |
| AU Australia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Worster | 19 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Worster | 34 |
| IE Ireland | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Worster | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Worster | 1 |
1,370 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- William John Alexander Worsterb. 1883GBBritish translator from the Danish language
- Cecil Charles Worster-Droughtb. 1888British physician
- Sigrun Worsterb. 1960CAbadminton player
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Worster?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Worster, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled worster. After it come United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Worster?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,370 people named Worster in 2010, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Worster?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/worsterThe 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, “Worster” — ranked 18177th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.