The surname Whitcher
An English occupational surname, carried by 1,263 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W326
Origin
English origin
From Old English hwiċċe, an occupational surname for a maker of chests.
Whitcher is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,263 people named Whitcher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 244,454 Americans. That is down 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,305.
Who is named Whitcher
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Whitcher identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Whitcher has the Soundex code W326, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W326.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Whitcher come from?
- From Old English hwiċċe, an occupational surname for a maker of chests.
- How common is the surname Whitcher?
- 1,263 people in the United States had the surname Whitcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 244,454 Americans. It ranked 20,871st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Whitcher?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Whitcher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Whitcher?
- Whitcher is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Whitcher getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,305 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,263 in 2010, down 3.2%.