The Wager surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,428 people carried this name — #9,488 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 86,200 people counted. That is up 3% from 3,316 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
314 people named Wager live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 93 people named Wager.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Aisne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
181 people named Wager are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Wager in American newspapers,
1850–1899.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 294,574 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Wager,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Wager 1666–1743 · politician -
Charles Wager 1666–1743 · politician
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Lewis Wager d. 1562 · playwright
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Ann Wager 1716–1774 · teacher
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Mary Magdalena Wager Reigart 1772–1806
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George Wager 1831–1915
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wager.
- Wacker 4,530 · U.S. census
- Wade 97,040 · U.S. census
- Wadel 513 · U.S. census
- Waechter 1,157 · U.S. census
- Wagener 1,627 · U.S. census
- Wagenheim 172 · U.S. census
- Wagner 155,795 · U.S. census
- Wagnon 2,050 · U.S. census
- Wagon 104 · U.S. census
- Wahl 13,253 · U.S. census
- Waibel 1,414 · U.S. census
- Wajda 940 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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