Wagstaff

English

Alternative forms

• Wagstaffe
• Wagster

Etymology

From Middle English waggen (“to move up and down”) + staff (“staff, rod”), an occupational surname for an official who carried a staff.

Proper noun

Wagstaff (countable and uncountable, plural Wagstaffs)

1. A surname from Middle English.
2. An unincorporated community in Miami County, Kansas, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wagstaff is the 10553^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3037 individuals. Wagstaff is most common among White (82.05%) and Black/African American (14.26%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wagstaff”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.