as a Last Name
- 288,393
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ward
Meaning & Origins
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
| 70th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 288,393
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Ward per capita
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