The surname Whisnant
A surname, carried by 2,893 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W255
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,893 people named Whisnant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,722 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,777.
#10,993
rank among US surnames
2,893
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+4.2%
change since 2000 (was #10,591)
Who is named Whisnant
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Whisnant identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Whisnant
Whisnant 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 Whisnant?
- 2,893 people in the United States had the surname Whisnant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,722 Americans. It ranked 10,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Whisnant?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Whisnant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Whisnant getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,777 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,893 in 2010, up 4.2%.