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    The surname Whitchurch

    An English place surname, carried by 677 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W326

    Whitchurch: #33,645 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Whitchurch #33,645, 677 people Whitchurch: #33,645 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Whitchurch #33,645, 677 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitchurch is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hwit + cirice (“white church”), presumably built from whitish stone.

    Whitchurch is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 677 people named Whitchurch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 456,050 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 609.

    #33,645
    rank among US surnames
    677
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.2%
    change since 2000 (was #35,053)

    Who is named Whitchurch

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

    89% of people named Whitchurch identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whitchurch

    Whitchurch has the Soundex code W326, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W326.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Whitchurch come from?
    From Old English hwit + cirice (“white church”), presumably built from whitish stone.
    How common is the surname Whitchurch?
    677 people in the United States had the surname Whitchurch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 456,050 Americans. It ranked 33,645th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitchurch?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Whitchurch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Whitchurch?
    Whitchurch is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Whitchurch getting more or less common?
    More common. 609 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 677 in 2010, up 11%.