Wareham
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wareham is a name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: person from Wareham, Dorset, meaning 'homestead by a weir'.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 67K◐
- USUnited States1 in 169K
- EHWestern Sahara1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 224 ●
- 1 in 169K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
24K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled แวร์แฮม in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
person from Wareham, Dorset, meaning 'homestead by a weir'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | 4,166 | 4K rec. | — | — | Wareham | 120 |
| US United States | 1,973 | 16K rec. | 1 in 169K | 2K | Wareham | 224 |
| EH Western Sahara | 247 | 0 rec. | — | — | Wareham | 1 |
| CA Canada | 36 | 960 rec. | — | — | Wareham | 79 |
| ES Spain | 26 | 74 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | — | 18 |
| RU Russia | 11 | 85 rec. | — | — | Wareham | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | — | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | 6 | 25 rec. | — | #994,671 | แวร์แฮม | 7 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 15 rec. | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 8 rec. | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 2 rec. | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 4 |
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Languages●
- English35K35%
- Arabic2471%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 35,428 | 35% |
| Arabic | 247 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Wareham is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, set, so called from OE wcer weir (see Ware i) + ham home¬ stead. Vars.: Warboy, Worboys. Var.: Warham (places in Herefords. and Norfolk).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, town, England
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Wareham, Dorset, or Warham, Herefordshire/Norfolk; first attested Alexander de Warham 1207 P (Dorset)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Jack Warehamb. 1901GBFootballer (1901-1984)
- Dave Warehamb. 1924USAmerican basketball player
- Dean Warehamb. 1963NZNew Zealand-American musician
- David WarehamCANew Zealand environmental engineer
- David WarehamGBresearcher and microbiologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,818 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #71,581 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #69,549 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #54,803 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #243,230 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #144,525 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #29,400 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wareham?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Wareham (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Wareham have the most bearers?
- Wareham is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled wareham.
- What does the name Wareham mean?
- Recorded meaning: person from Wareham, Dorset, meaning 'homestead by a weir'.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wareham”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.