The surname Whisenant
A surname, carried by 3,838 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex W255
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,838 people named Whisenant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,444 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,450.
#8,581
rank among US surnames
3,838
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+11.2%
change since 2000 (was #8,762)
Who is named Whisenant
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Whisenant identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.7%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Whisenant
Whisenant has the Soundex code W255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W255.
Questions
- How common is the surname Whisenant?
- 3,838 people in the United States had the surname Whisenant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,444 Americans. It ranked 8,581st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Whisenant?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Whisenant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Whisenant getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,450 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,838 in 2010, up 11%.