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The surname Warthen

A surname, carried by 1,750 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W635

Warthen: #16,437 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Warthen #16,437, 1,750 people Warthen: #16,437 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Warthen #16,437, 1,750 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Warthen is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,750 people named Warthen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,426 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,638.

#16,437
rank among US surnames
1,750
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.8%
change since 2000 (was #16,219)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,437Novello1,750176,426
#16,444Guimond1,749176,527

Who is named Warthen

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

54% of people named Warthen identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 54%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Warthen

Warthen has the Soundex code W635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W635.

Questions

How common is the surname Warthen?
1,750 people in the United States had the surname Warthen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,426 Americans. It ranked 16,437th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Warthen?
In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Warthen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Warthen getting more or less common?
More common. 1,638 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,750 in 2010, up 6.8%.