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    The surname Hite

    A surname, carried by 11,810 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H300

    Hite: #3,034 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hite #3,034, 11,810 people Hite: #3,034 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hite #3,034, 11,810 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hite is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,810 people named Hite in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,143 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 11,776.

    #3,034
    rank among US surnames
    11,810
    people in 2010
    4.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #2,800)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,025Moffett11,85326,048
    #3,026Stuckey11,84626,063
    #3,027Brumfield11,84226,072
    #3,028Lankford11,83426,090
    #3,029Bolanos11,82926,101
    #3,031Shanks11,82226,116
    #3,032O'Sullivan11,81826,125

    Who is named Hite

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    86% of people named Hite identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Hites

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Robert Hite
      American basketball player (born 1984)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hite

    Hite has the Soundex code H300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hite?
    11,810 people in the United States had the surname Hite in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,143 Americans. It ranked 3,034th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hite?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Hite identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Hite?
    Robert Hite, American basketball player (born 1984).
    Where is the surname Hite most common?
    Wikidata records people named Hite in the United States.
    Is the surname Hite getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,776 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,810 in 2010, up 0.3%.