Wayman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈweɪmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wayman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England. see Wyman . 2 English: see Waithman .
- USUnited States1 in 61K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
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)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
5,411 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England. see Wyman . 2 English: see Waithman .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wayman 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 | 5,411 | 1 in 61K | 5.4K | Wayman | 17 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | — | — | Wayman | 3 |
| PS Palestine | — | — | — | Wayman | 1 |
5,411 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 Waymanb. 1833GBBritish politician
- Alex Waymanb. 1921USTibetologist and Indologist (1921-2004)
- Charlie Waymanb. 1922GBEnglish footballer (1922-2006)
- Jack Waymanb. 1922USbusinessperson in the consumer electronics industry
- Patrick Arthur Waymanb. 1927GBBritish astronomer
- Frank Waymanb. 1931GBEnglish footballer (1931-2008)
- Frank Whelon Waymanb. 1946Ph.D. in political science, University of Pennsylvania, 1972. Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn
- Theresa Waymanb. 1980USAmerican musician
- Samuel P WaymanUSWayman, Samuel P; class of 1877
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,315 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.1K | #6,167 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #10,693 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #412,335 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Wayman mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England. see Wyman . 2 English: see Waithman . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Wayman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈweɪmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wayman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Wayman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wayman.
- Where is Wayman most common?
- Wayman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 61 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wayman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,411 people named Wayman in 2010, about 1 in 61 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/waymanThe 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, “Wayman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.