How common is the surname Whiddon?

2,769 people in the United States had the surname Whiddon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,501 Americans. It ranked 11,388th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Whiddon?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Whiddon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Whiddon getting more or less common?

About as common. 2,769 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,769 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Whiddon

A surname, carried by 2,769 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whiddon is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,769 people named Whiddon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,501 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,769.

#11,388

rank among US surnames

2,769

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #10,622)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,380	Sauers	2,771	111,420
#11,383	Mooneyham	2,770	111,460
#11,388	Max	2,769	111,501
#11,393	Ickes	2,768	111,541
#11,395	Schneck	2,767	111,581

Who is named Whiddon

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

96% of people named Whiddon identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Whiddon

Whiddon has the Soundex code W350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W350.

Questions

How common is the surname Whiddon?: 2,769 people in the United States had the surname Whiddon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,501 Americans. It ranked 11,388th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whiddon?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Whiddon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Whiddon getting more or less common?: About as common. 2,769 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,769 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.