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    The surname Whitesel

    A surname, carried by 1,193 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W324

    Whitesel: #21,790 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whitesel #21,790, 1,193 people Whitesel: #21,790 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whitesel #21,790, 1,193 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitesel is more common than 86.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,193 people named Whitesel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,124.

    #21,790
    rank among US surnames
    1,193
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.1%
    change since 2000 (was #21,620)

    Who is named Whitesel

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

    96% of people named Whitesel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whitesel

    Whitesel has the Soundex code W324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W324.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whitesel?
    1,193 people in the United States had the surname Whitesel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. It ranked 21,790th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitesel?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Whitesel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Whitesel getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,124 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,193 in 2010, up 6.1%.