The Vaught surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,476 people carried this name — #3,738 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 31,200 people counted. That is up 5% from 9,004 in 2000.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
20 families named Vaught, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 110 people lived in those households, 5.5 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 6 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 267 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Vaught in American newspapers,
1911–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 10,877 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Vaught in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.
193 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Vaught. The most, 51, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 2.8 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Vaught.
Who carried it
People named Vaught,
with a public archive behind them.
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L. A. Vaught 1859–1903 · phrenologist -
Edgar Sullins Vaught 1873–1959 · judge -
Johnny Vaught 1909–2006 · American football player -
James B. Vaught 1926–2013 · military personnel -
Elsa Vaught 1883–1972
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W. O. Vaught 1911–1989
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Vaught,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States513 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 338
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 133
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 22
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 8
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 6
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 2
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record Michael Eugene VaughtBorn 1946; from Corpus Christi, Texas. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; died in an accident 1968 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. Buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Wallace O. VaughtBorn 1920 in Virginia. Enlisted 1942 at Abingdon; chemical plant worker from Grayson County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Manassas, Virginia.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Eliza VaughtArrived at New York in 1854 aboard the Cornelius Grinnell from Liverpool, aged 40. From Ireland.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 513 records for Vaught in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Australia11 records
- Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 6
- Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 5
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Edwd VaughtArrived in Victoria in 1856 aboard the Marco Polo, aged 60; English.
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Example: probate petition, 1848 Probate record Doris Evelyn Mary VaughtGentlewoman of Kew, Victoria; died 1963.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Henry VaughtArrived in Victoria in 1853 aboard the Zes Gesusters, aged 21; English.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 11 records for Vaught in Australia.
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Vaught.
- Vasseur 809 · U.S. census
- Vassor 269 · U.S. census
- Vastine 484 · U.S. census
- Vater 602 · U.S. census
- Vaughan 38,830 · U.S. census
- Vaughn 88,060 · U.S. census
- Vautier 213 · U.S. census
- Vautour 382 · U.S. census
- Vautrin 276 · U.S. census
- Vaux 423 · U.S. census
- Vavasseur 113 · U.S. census
- Vay 376 · U.S. census
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