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    The surname Whiteside

    An English place surname, carried by 11,334 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W323

    Whiteside: #3,191 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Whiteside #3,191, 11,334 people Whiteside: #3,191 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whiteside #3,191, 11,334 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whiteside is more common than 98% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hwīt (“white”) + sīde (“side; slope of a hill”).

    Whiteside is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,334 people named Whiteside in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 27,241 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,981.

    #3,191
    rank among US surnames
    11,334
    people in 2010
    3.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #3,026)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,182Yan11,35427,193
    #3,183McNeely11,35027,202
    #3,184Corrales11,34827,207
    #3,185Murrell11,34727,209
    #3,186Brownlee11,34427,217
    #3,187Fultz11,34227,221
    #3,188Harlan11,33927,229

    Who is named Whiteside

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

    64% of people named Whiteside identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 64%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Whitesides

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Hassan Whiteside
      American basketball player (born 1989)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whiteside

    Whiteside has the Soundex code W323, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W323.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Whiteside come from?
    From Old English hwīt (“white”) + sīde (“side; slope of a hill”).
    How common is the surname Whiteside?
    11,334 people in the United States had the surname Whiteside in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 27,241 Americans. It ranked 3,191st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whiteside?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Whiteside identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Whiteside?
    Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player (born 1989).
    Where is the surname Whiteside most common?
    Wikidata records people named Whiteside in the United States.
    What type of surname is Whiteside?
    Whiteside is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Whiteside getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,981 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,334 in 2010, up 3.2%.