Wishart
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Norman personal name Wischard, probably from Old Norse viskr ‘wise’ + hard ‘brave’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɪˌʃɑɹt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wishart is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K
- CACanada≈1 in 64K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,930 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
from the Norman personal name Wischard, probably from Old Norse viskr ‘wise’ + hard ‘brave’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wishart 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 | 1,930 | 1 in 172K | 1.9K | Wishart | 261 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1.6K | Wishart | 157 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Wishart | 142 |
| CA Canada | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Wishart | 108 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Wishart | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Wishart | 47 |
| GY Guyana | 71 | 1 in 11K | 71 | Wishart | 1 |
1,930 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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Wishart 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, from ONFr/OFr Wisc(h)ard, from ON vizkr ‘wise’ + French -(h)ard; first attested Wischardus Leidet 1176 P (Beds)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Norman origin, from Norman French guischard ‘prudent, cunning’; recorded from around 1200 as Wischard.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, A surname from Anglo-Norman.
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)
- George Wishartb. 1513GBScottish Protestant martyr; (1513-1546)
- Spencer Wishartb. 1889USAmerican racecar driver (1889–1914)
- Joyce Steeleb. 1909AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician (1909-1991)
- Sally Wishart Armstrongb. 1943CACanadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist
- Gordon Wishartb. 1960GBScottish medical doctor
- Pete Wishartb. 1962GBScottish politician (born 1962)
- Craig Wishartb. 1974ZWZimbabwean cricketer
- Ty Wishartb. 1988CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Dan Wishartb. 1992GBEnglish association football player
- David WishartCACanadian bioinformatician
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,375 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.6K | #4,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,756 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 71 | #554 |
| GB United Kingdom | Scottish Surnames (Ross, 1994) | — | — | — |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Wishart mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Norman personal name Wischard, probably from Old Norse viskr ‘wise’ + hard ‘brave’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wishart?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪˌʃɑɹt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wishart have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Wishart, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wishart.
- Where is Wishart most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wishart is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wishart?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,930 people named Wishart in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wishartThe 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, “Wishart”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.