Worster
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɝstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Worster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 136K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 243K
- IEIreland≈1 in 57K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Worster 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Worster | 2 |
| US United States | 1,370 | 1 in 243K | 1.4K | Worster | 227 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 136K | 306 | Worster | 78 |
| DE Germany | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Worster | 40 |
| CO Colombia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Worster | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Worster | 19 |
| PT Portugal | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Worster | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Worster | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Russell B. Worsterb. 1872USpolitician in Massachusetts, US
- Muriel Mary Bennettb. 1880AUnot in their usual nameAustralian nurse and botanical collector (1880 - 1958)
- William John Alexander Worsterb. 1883GBBritish translator from the Danish language
- Cecil Charles Worster-Droughtb. 1888British physician
- Heinrich Worsterb. 1909DEpolitician (1909-1963)
- Grae Worsterb. 1958GBBritish fluid dynamicist
- Sigrun Worsterb. 1960CAbadminton player
- Wolf Worsterb. 1965CAbadminton player
- Ulric Worsterb. 1970CAbadminton player
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,744 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 306 | #16,154 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Worster?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɝstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Worster have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Worster in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled worster.
- How common is the name Worster?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,370 people named Worster in 2010, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Worster?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/worsterThe 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, “Worster”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.