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    The surname Whiten

    A surname, carried by 1,149 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W350

    Whiten: #22,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whiten #22,404, 1,149 people Whiten: #22,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whiten #22,404, 1,149 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whiten is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,149 people named Whiten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 268,708 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,090.

    #22,404
    rank among US surnames
    1,149
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.4%
    change since 2000 (was #22,132)

    Who is named Whiten

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

    65% of people named Whiten identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 65%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    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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    Surnames that sound like Whiten

    Whiten has the Soundex code W350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W350.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whiten?
    1,149 people in the United States had the surname Whiten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 268,708 Americans. It ranked 22,404th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whiten?
    In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Whiten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whiten getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,090 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,149 in 2010, up 5.4%.