Woollen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wʊlən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Woollen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; also Somerset. variant of Woolland . Compare Jo.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; also Somerset. variant of Woolland . Compare Jo. Woolland, 1645, Susan Woollen, 1667 in IGI (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk), and Phillip Woollen, 1671, Phillip Woolland, 1680 in IGI (South Molton, Devon).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Woollen 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 cdo, lastings feathers, plumes. Dutch camlets, lastings
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Evans Woollenb. 1864USCollege football coach
- Harry Woollenb. 1887(1887-1930) 1930/31 Obituary
- Russell Woollenb. 1923USAmerican composer, pianist, and organist (1923-1994)
- Evans Woollen IIIb. 1927USAmerican architect (1927-2016)
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 383 | #57,414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 355 | #57,372 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 282 | #65,668 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 257 | #18,155 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Woollen mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; also Somerset. variant of Woolland . Compare Jo. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- What are other forms of the name Woollen?
- In the etymology graph, Woolly and Wooly are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Woollen?
- A machine transcription gives /wʊlən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Woollen have the most bearers?
- Woollen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Woollen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/woollenThe 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, “Woollen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.