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    The surname Whitham

    A surname, carried by 1,373 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W350

    Whitham: #19,642 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whitham #19,642, 1,373 people Whitham: #19,642 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whitham #19,642, 1,373 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitham is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,373 people named Whitham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,869 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,277.

    #19,642
    rank among US surnames
    1,373
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.5%
    change since 2000 (was #19,554)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,642Caliendo1,373224,869
    #19,646Garrigan1,372225,033

    Who is named Whitham

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

    95% of people named Whitham identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whitham

    Whitham 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 Whitham?
    1,373 people in the United States had the surname Whitham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,869 Americans. It ranked 19,642nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitham?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Whitham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Whitham getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,277 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,373 in 2010, up 7.5%.