Warring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: engaged in war; belligerent
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwɔɹɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Warring is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Central African Republic than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 551K(measured from records)
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 3.2K
- NLNetherlands1 in 116K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Central African Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)engaged in war; belligerent
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Warring counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF Central African Republic | #102 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Warring | 1 |
| US United States | — | 604 | 1 in 551K | 718 | Warring | 184 |
| IN India | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Warring | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 149 | 1 in 116K | 149 | Warring | 11 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 864K | — | Warring | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Warring | 46 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Warring | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Warring | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James Warringb. 1958USAmerican martial artist
- Kahale Warringb. 1997USAmerican football tight end
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 718 | #34,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 642 | #33,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 604 | #36,970 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 149 | #13,640 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Warring mean, and where does it come from?
- engaged in war; belligerent Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Warring?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔɹɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Warring have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Warring in the Central African Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled warring.
- How common is the name Warring?
- In the United States, the national register counted 604 people named Warring in 2010, about 1 in 551 thousand residents.
- How common is Warring compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Warring is the 102nd most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/warringThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Warring” — the 102nd most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.