# Whitman (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/whitman/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,399 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,851 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 15,916 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.2% (19,827 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈwɪt.mən/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Whitman in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Whitman in the United States.

## People named Whitman

- Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
- Meg Whitman, American business executive
- Stuart Whitman, American actor (1928-2020)
- Charles Whitman, American mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shoo
- Christine Todd Whitman, American politician and author (born 1946)
- Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Malcolm Whitman, American tennis player (1877-1932)
- Charles Otis Whitman, American zoologist (1842–1910)
- Gayne Whitman, actor (1890-1958)
- Marina von Neumann Whitman, American economist
- Ernest Whitman, American actor (1893-1954)
- Marcus Whitman, American physician and Oregon missionary (1802-1847)

and 1 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Whiteman, Wittman, Wideman, Weidman, Wightman, Widman, Wittmann, Witman, Widmann, Wiedman, Woodman, Wiedeman.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.