The surname Whitener
A surname, carried by 4,453 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W356
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,453 people named Whitener in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,334 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,386.
#7,481
rank among US surnames
4,453
people in 2010
1.5
per 100,000 Americans
+1.5%
change since 2000 (was #7,042)
Who is named Whitener
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
82% of people named Whitener identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 82%
- Black (not Hispanic) 12%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Surnames that sound like Whitener
Whitener has the Soundex code W356, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W356.
Questions
- How common is the surname Whitener?
- 4,453 people in the United States had the surname Whitener in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,334 Americans. It ranked 7,481st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Whitener?
- In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Whitener identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Whitener getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,386 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,453 in 2010, up 1.5%.