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The surname Whitecotton

A surname, carried by 1,253 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex W323

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitecotton is more common than 87.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,253 people named Whitecotton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 246,405 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,252.

#20,996
rank among US surnames
1,253
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #19,865)

Who is named Whitecotton

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

91% of people named Whitecotton identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as two or more races and 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Two or more races 3.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Whitecotton

Whitecotton has the Soundex code W323, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W323.

Questions

How common is the surname Whitecotton?
1,253 people in the United States had the surname Whitecotton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 246,405 Americans. It ranked 20,996th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whitecotton?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Whitecotton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as two or more races.
Is the surname Whitecotton getting more or less common?
More common. 1,252 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,253 in 2010, up 0.1%.