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    The surname Whitledge

    A place surname, carried by 584 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W343

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitledge is more common than 76.6% of them.

    Origin

    Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, or an altered form of Whitley.

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 584 people named Whitledge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 528,674 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 602.

    #37,993
    rank among US surnames
    584
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3%
    change since 2000 (was #35,387)

    Who is named Whitledge

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

    95% of people named Whitledge identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as two or more races and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, 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 Whitledge

    Whitledge has the Soundex code W343, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W343.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Whitledge come from?
    Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, or an altered form of Whitley.
    How common is the surname Whitledge?
    584 people in the United States had the surname Whitledge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 528,674 Americans. It ranked 37,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitledge?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Whitledge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Whitledge?
    Whitledge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Whitledge getting more or less common?
    Less common. 602 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 584 in 2010, down 3.0%.