What We Know About the Wakeman Surname

Wakeman is an English surname. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “the watchman for a village, castle or fortified place”.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Wakeman with 2,748 bearers, at rank 11,463.

Sharing the Wakeman name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Get the complete Wakeman report, with a museum-style coat of arms.