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The Wilmot surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,910 people carried this name — #6,854 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 60,200 people counted. That is up 5% from 4,661 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Wilmot surname

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Wilmot» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 223 people named Wilmot.

4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Nord.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 4
Nord 167
Paris 10
Somme 9
Pas-de-Calais 6
Ardennes 6
Yvelines 2
Vendée 2
Manche 2

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 117 people named Wilmot live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Namur.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Namur 57
Hainaut 54
East Flanders 6

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

Among the farmers of England and Wales, 1880s

Wilmot was found among the farmers of 3 counties.

It was most frequent in Derbyshire: 13 in every 10,000 farmers there — about 1 in 769. Guppy counted the farmers listed in each county’s directory and recorded a name only where it reached about 7 in every 10,000; where it does not appear, it was rarer than that, not absent. His list gives one count for the spellings Wilmot and Wilmott.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Per 10,000 farmers, by county

Derbyshire 13
Hertfordshire 10
Somerset 9

H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), alphabetical list of English and Welsh names — public domain · farmers in Kelly’s Post Office Directories of the 1880s, per 10,000 farmers in each county.

In print

Wilmot in American newspapers,
1849–1901.

Newspaper page from Canton Weekly Register carrying the name Wilmot
Canton Weekly Register 1864-05-02
Newspaper page from Glasgow Weekly Times carrying the name Wilmot
Glasgow Weekly Times 1849-12-20
Newspaper page from The Taney County Republican carrying the name Wilmot
The Taney County Republican 1901-01-03

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 103,213 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Wilmot,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Montague Wilmot
    Montague Wilmot d. 1766
  • Allan Wilmot d. 2021
  • Harold Wilmot d. 1961
  • Mary Frances Wilmot d. 1839
  • Emma Matilda Wilmot d. 1874
  • Dora May Wilmot d. 1921

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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