Waddingham
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Waddingham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Waddingham (L); first attested Nicholas de Wadingham c1160 Gilb.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 8.3M
- THThailand≈1 in 13Mas วัดดิ้งแฮม
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Waddingham itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
242 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled วัดดิ้งแฮม in TH Thailand.
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 Waddingham (L); first attested Nicholas de Wadingham c1160 Gilb
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waddingham 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 | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 242 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | #605,596 | วัดดิ้งแฮม | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 1.1K | — | — |
242 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Wilson Waddinghamb. 1833Millionaire cattleman
- Alice W. Waddinghamb. 1860Heiress; First Lady of New Mexico
- Dorothea Waddinghamb. 1899GBEnglish murderer (1899–1936)
- Hannah Waddinghamb. 1974GBBritish actress
- Thomas Waddinghamb. 2005AUAustralian soccer player (born 2005)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.1K | #6,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 242 | #78,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 231 | #86,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 227 | #78,326 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| 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 Waddingham mean, and where does it come from?
- from Waddingham (L); first attested Nicholas de Wadingham c1160 Gilb Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Waddingham have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 242 people named Waddingham, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Waddingham most common?
- Waddingham is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Waddingham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 242 people named Waddingham in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waddinghamThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Waddingham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.