Wolstenholme
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Wolstenholme, Lancashire, ‘Wulfstan’s island’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwoʊɫstɪnhoʊɫm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolstenholme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 753K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
- ESSpain1 in 2.8M
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
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 753K (inferred from the name graph)
442 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)
person from Wolstenholme, Lancashire, ‘Wulfstan’s island’.
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)
Wolstenholme 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.
442 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Wolstenholme is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Lancs., so called from the OE personal name Wulfstan (see WooLSTON i) + ON holmr island, dry land in a fen (see
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Joseph Wolstenholmeb. 1829GBBritish mathematician (1829–1891)
- Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmyb. 1833GBEnglish suffragist
- Samuel Wolstenholmeb. 1878GBEnglish cricketer (1878-1933)
- Kenneth Wolstenholmeb. 1920GBAssociation football commentator
- Ian Wolstenholmeb. 1943GBEnglish football player and manager (born 1943)
- Trevor Wolstenholmeb. 1943GBfootballer (born 1943)
- Woolly Wolstenholmeb. 1947GBBritish musician (1947–2010)
- Karen Wolstenholmeb. 1962GBBritish diplomat
- Christopher Wolstenholmeb. 1978GBBritish bassist
- James Wolstenholmeactor
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 442 | #47,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 420 | #53,213 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 396 | #49,767 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #68,218 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #65,060 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #414,303 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #276,273 |
| 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 Wolstenholme mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Wolstenholme, Lancashire, ‘Wulfstan’s island’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wolstenholme?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwoʊɫstɪnhoʊɫm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wolstenholme have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 442 people named Wolstenholme, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wolstenholme most common?
- Wolstenholme is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 753 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wolstenholme?
- In the United States, the national register counted 442 people named Wolstenholme in 2010, about 1 in 753 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolstenholmeThe 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, “Wolstenholme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.