The surname Whinery
A Norse place surname, carried by 866 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex W560
Origin
Norse origin
Topographic surname from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) + vrá (“nook or corner of land”).
Whinery is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 866 people named Whinery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 356,519 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 836.
Who is named Whinery
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Whinery identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as two or more races and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Two or more races 5.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Whineray
- Whinnery
- Winrow
Whinery has the Soundex code W560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W560.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Whinery come from?
- Topographic surname from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) + vrá (“nook or corner of land”).
- How common is the surname Whinery?
- 866 people in the United States had the surname Whinery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 356,519 Americans. It ranked 27,756th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Whinery?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Whinery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Whinery?
- Whinery is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Whinery getting more or less common?
- More common. 836 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 866 in 2010, up 3.6%.
- What are other spellings of Whinery?
- Whineray, Whinnery and Winrow.