How common is the surname Whisenhunt?

3,301 people in the United States had the surname Whisenhunt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,531 Americans. It ranked 9,808th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Whisenhunt?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Whisenhunt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Whisenhunt getting more or less common?

More common. 3,247 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,301 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Whisenhunt

A surname, carried by 3,301 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex W255

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whisenhunt is more common than 94% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,301 people named Whisenhunt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,531 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,247.

#9,808

rank among US surnames

3,301

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,236)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,800	Casias	3,303	93,474
#9,803	Goto	3,302	93,503
#9,808	Whisenhunt	3,301	93,531
#9,810	Vos	3,300	93,559
#9,813	Starke	3,299	93,588

Who is named Whisenhunt

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

90% of people named Whisenhunt identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.9%
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 Whisenhunt

Whisenhunt 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 Whisenhunt?: 3,301 people in the United States had the surname Whisenhunt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,531 Americans. It ranked 9,808th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whisenhunt?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Whisenhunt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Whisenhunt getting more or less common?: More common. 3,247 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,301 in 2010, up 1.7%.