How common is the surname Whiteman?

7,642 people in the United States had the surname Whiteman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,401 Americans. It ranked 4,645th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Whiteman?

In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Whiteman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Whiteman getting more or less common?

More common. 7,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,642 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Whiteman

A surname, carried by 7,642 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W355

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whiteman is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

Doublet of Weissmann.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,642 people named Whiteman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,401 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,395.

#4,645

rank among US surnames

7,642

people in 2010

2.6

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #4,432)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,640	Flanigan	7,648	40,369
#4,642	McKeever	7,647	40,375
#4,644	Reuter	7,643	40,396
#4,645	Whiteman	7,642	40,401

Who is named Whiteman

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

83% of people named Whiteman identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 83%
American Indian and Alaska Native 6.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Whiteman

Whiteman has the Soundex code W355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W355.

Questions

Where does the surname Whiteman come from?: Doublet of Weissmann.
How common is the surname Whiteman?: 7,642 people in the United States had the surname Whiteman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,401 Americans. It ranked 4,645th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whiteman?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Whiteman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Whiteman getting more or less common?: More common. 7,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,642 in 2010, up 3.3%.