WooL

surname · Latin script

Meaning: worker in wool, ME woll (OE wull)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/wʊl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

WooL is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • ESSpain
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

worker in wool, ME woll (OE wull). 2. in SW England, a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from ME woll, wull spring, stream, a western dial, development of OE (W Saxon) wiell(a) (see Will 2). Vars.: Wo(o)ll, Wool(l)er, Woller, Woolman, Wol(l)man. Woolatt see Wolfit

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

WooL 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, The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kw, soft mutation of gool

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pdt, well-being, weal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tli, hole

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting WooL
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000884#26,056
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020851#29,547
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010817#29,041
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002134#27,550
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—56#4,430
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#3,783
US United Stateswru 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

Where does the name WooL come from?
worker in wool, ME woll (OE wull). 2. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
How do you pronounce WooL?
A machine transcription gives /wʊl/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name WooL mean?
Recorded meaning: worker in wool, ME woll (OE wull).
In which country does WooL have the most bearers?
WooL is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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