Watterson is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 9 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Watterson
No. of characters: 9
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Watterson

How popular is Watterson?

Watterson is common in United States.

Watterson is ranked 60968 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Watterson bearers increased by 7.737226 per cent in 2010 US census to 3690 since 2000, the surname slipped by 67 spots and ranked at 8873. The last name was found in around 12 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 87.24 88.29
Black 6.42 6.74
Hispanic or Latino 2.79 2.25
Others 1.63 1.14
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.57 1.31
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.35 0.26
Watterson is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Isle of Man is ahead in terms of density. Around 7554 people have been found who wears Watterson as their family name. Watterson is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
541,660 Russia8
9,097 Wales3
184,212 France3
21,529 Singapore2
139,444 Brazil2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
147,165 Czech Republic2
14,004 Hungary2
40,256 Mexico2
124,220 Italy2
8,181 Botswana1
2,361 United States Virgin Islands1
81,201 Switzerland1
1,818 Guernsey1
16,640 Hong Kong1
8,859 Iraq1
29,046 Japan1
38,830 Morocco1
34,581 Chile1
591 Samoa1
17,236 Ghana1
7,895 South Korea1
118,015 Netherlands1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
6,284 Ireland49
13,429 New Zealand45
24,028 United Arab Emirates38
81,586 Spain17
Countries with hundreds of Watterson:
7,158 England963
4,266 Australia706
733 Northern Ireland441
18,360 South Africa329
12 Isle of Man261
15,513 Canada240
4,108 Scotland144
Countries with thousands of Watterson:
8,716 United States4,280
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 36 years old immigrant Pat Watterson who was residing in Ireland migrated to Canada on June 23, 1849 by Columbus put out from Liverpool. Immigrant Rose Watterson, 26 years old Margt. Watterson, John Watterson, James Watterson (26) Servant, Gentleman John-S. Watterson, 38 years old Mary Watterson, Sally Watterson, aged 20, are other Watterson that migrated to US.

Comments

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Rhonda Gauna
 The origin of the name is Anglo-Saxon etymology comes from the agglutination of walter personal name and its meaning: the son of walter - Frankish waldhar which means army chief.

Watterson Namesakes

  • Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
  • Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
  • Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
  • Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
  • Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
  • Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
  • Bill Watterson, Actor

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