as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, originally an occupational name from Old English weard ‘guardian, watchman’.
| 1,591st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,044
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Ward per capita
- 1922
- marked the height of its popularity
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