How common is the surname Whitehair?

1,603 people in the United States had the surname Whitehair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,605 Americans. It ranked 17,551st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Whitehair?

In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Whitehair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Whitehair getting more or less common?

More common. 1,422 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,603 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Whitehair

A surname, carried by 1,603 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitehair is more common than 89.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,603 people named Whitehair in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 192,605 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,422.

#17,551

rank among US surnames

1,603

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+12.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,077)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,551	Farney	1,603	192,605
#17,559	Cambridge	1,602	192,725

Who is named Whitehair

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

77% of people named Whitehair identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 77%
American Indian and Alaska Native 20%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
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 Whitehair

Whitehair has the Soundex code W360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W360.

Questions

How common is the surname Whitehair?: 1,603 people in the United States had the surname Whitehair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,605 Americans. It ranked 17,551st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whitehair?: In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Whitehair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Whitehair getting more or less common?: More common. 1,422 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,603 in 2010, up 13%.