# Bitting (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bitting/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,591 |
| US rank (2010) | 17,657 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 194,058 people |
| Change since 2000 | +10% (1,447 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bitting in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bitting in the United States.

## People named Bitting

- Katherine Bitting, American bacteriologist and food scientist (1869-1937)

## Similar surnames

Bittinger, Bittencourt, Betancourt, Bettencourt, Bottoms, Boateng, Betances, Betancur, Beddingfield, Bettinger, Budnick, Bhatnagar.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.