Walmsley
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɔɫmsɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Walmsley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Walmersley.
- USUnited States1 in 161K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
2,071 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Variant of Walmersley.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Walmsley 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 | 2,071 | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Walmsley | 5 |
| ES Spain | 41 | 1 in 1.2M | 41 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 38 | 1 in 5.6M | 38 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 6 | 1 in 850K | 6 | — | — |
2,071 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Thomas Walmsleyb. 1537English judge and politician
- Joshua Walmsleyb. 1794GBBritish Member of Parliament
- Albert Walmsleyb. 1885GBFootballer (1885-?)
- William Walmsleyb. 1892GBBritish automobile designer
- Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsleyb. 1943GBBritish Baroness
- Jon Walmsleyb. 1956GBBritish actor-singer
- Ian Walmsleyb. 1960GBBritish physicist
- Emma Walmsleyb. 1969GBBritish businesswoman, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline
- Jim Walmsleyb. 1990USAmerican ultra trail runner
- Elliana Walmsleyb. 2007GRGreek dancer, model and 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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,586 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #51,640 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41 | #50,851 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,693 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,552 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6 | #7,247 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Walmsley mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Walmersley. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Walmsley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔɫmsɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Walmsley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Walmsley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled walmsley.
- Where is Walmsley most common?
- Walmsley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 161 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Walmsley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,071 people named Walmsley in 2010, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/walmsleyThe 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, “Walmsley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.