Wakeman is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Wakeman
No. of characters: 7
Origin: England
Meaning:

In Anglo-Saxon, waec-man, a watchman. According to Bailey's Dict. the chief officer of Ripon was anciently called the wakeman; but this is incorrect. The Wakeman was an inferior functionary, whose duty was to blow a cow's horn every night at nine o'clock; and if between such blowing and sun-rise, any burglary took place, it was made good at the public charge.

The watchman for a village, castle or fortified place.

Watchman.

How popular is Wakeman?

Wakeman is common in United States, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Wakeman is ranked 73603 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Wakeman bearers increased by 8.96 per cent in 2010 US census to 2748 since 2000, the surname slipped by 5 spots and ranked at 11463. The last name was found in around 9 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.34 95.04
Others 2 0.99
Hispanic or Latino 1.42 1.03
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.27 1.15
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.2 0.91
Black 0.76 0.87
Wakeman is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while England is ahead in terms of density. Around 6686 people have been found who wears Wakeman as their family name. Wakeman is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Wakeman:
11,024 United States3,653
3,458 England2,213
Countries with hundreds of Wakeman:
14,140 Canada269
12,099 Australia249
7,335 New Zealand102
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
4,243 Wales70
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
158,771 Germany22
352,754 Thailand15
17,291 Scotland13
132,322 South Africa13
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
57,975 Israel9
101,176 Netherlands6

Immigrants to US

From Germany

P.N. Wakeman was 23 years old when he migrated to United States on May 11, 1868. He lived in Germany where he worked as laborer and took Erin from Liverpool & Queenstown. Gentleman E L Wakeman, 11 years old John Wakeman, 34 years old Mrs Wakeman, A C Wakeman (37) Merchant, Jassup Wakeman (33) Merchant, are other Wakeman that migrated to US from Bristol, Liverpool & Queenstown and Glasgow & Larne.

Wakeman Namesakes

  • George Wakeman, English doctor,
  • John Wakeman, English Benedictine
  • Abram Wakeman, U.S. Representative from New York
  • Seth Wakeman, U.S. Representative from New York
  • Frederic Wakeman, Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr
  • Rick Wakeman, English keyboardist, songwriter
  • Oliver Wakeman, English musician, rock keyboardist and composer
  • Adam Wakeman, English musician and the current keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath
  • Dusty Wakeman, American rock/country music producer and engineer based
  • Alan Wakeman, cousin of the keyboard player Rick Wakeman

Wakeman Namesakes

  • George Wakeman, English doctor,
  • John Wakeman, English Benedictine
  • Abram Wakeman, U.S. Representative from New York
  • Seth Wakeman, U.S. Representative from New York
  • Frederic Wakeman, Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr
  • Rick Wakeman, English keyboardist, songwriter
  • Oliver Wakeman, English musician, rock keyboardist and composer
  • Adam Wakeman, English musician and the current keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath
  • Dusty Wakeman, American rock/country music producer and engineer based
  • Alan Wakeman, cousin of the keyboard player Rick Wakeman

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