as a Last Name
- 421,319
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Wright
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.
| 33rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Wrigley, Wrightson, Wrightsman, Wrights, Wrighton, Wrightington, Wrighten, Wrigh, Wrigglesworth, Wrigth
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 421,319
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Wright per capita
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