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    The surname Whicker

    A surname, carried by 1,671 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W260

    Whicker: #17,005 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whicker #17,005, 1,671 people Whicker: #17,005 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whicker #17,005, 1,671 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whicker is more common than 89.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,671 people named Whicker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 184,767 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,569.

    #17,005
    rank among US surnames
    1,671
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,761)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,005Kebede1,671184,767
    #17,014Arocha1,670184,878

    Who is named Whicker

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

    93% of people named Whicker identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whicker

    Whicker has the Soundex code W260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whicker?
    1,671 people in the United States had the surname Whicker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 184,767 Americans. It ranked 17,005th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whicker?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Whicker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whicker getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,569 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,671 in 2010, up 6.5%.