Wishart
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (surname): Whisker
Etymology
[edit]Scottish surname derived from Anglo-Norman Wischard, from the Old French personal name Guiscard. Compare Modern French Guiscard.
Proper noun
[edit]Wishart (countable and uncountable, plural Wisharts)
- A surname from Anglo-Norman.
- A place name:
- An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Emerald No. 277, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A suburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, indirectly named after John Wishart.
- A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, named after the Wishart early settler family.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wishart is the 15238th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1930 individuals. Wishart is most common among White (90.78%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wishart”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Old French
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Anglo-Norman
- en:Unincorporated communities in Missouri, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Missouri, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, USA
- en:Places in Virginia, USA
- en:Villages in Saskatchewan
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Saskatchewan
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Suburbs in the Northern Territory
- en:Places in the Northern Territory
- en:Places in Australia
- en:Suburbs in Queensland
- en:Places in Brisbane
- en:Places in Queensland