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    The surname Whitefield

    A surname, carried by 1,414 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W314

    Whitefield: #19,200 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whitefield #19,200, 1,414 people Whitefield: #19,200 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whitefield #19,200, 1,414 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitefield is more common than 88.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,414 people named Whitefield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 218,349 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,366.

    #19,200
    rank among US surnames
    1,414
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #18,607)

    Who is named Whitefield

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

    81% of people named Whitefield identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Whitefield

    Whitefield has the Soundex code W314, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W314.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whitefield?
    1,414 people in the United States had the surname Whitefield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,349 Americans. It ranked 19,200th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitefield?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Whitefield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whitefield getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,366 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,414 in 2010, up 3.5%.
    What are other spellings of Whitefield?
    Whitfield.