How common is the surname Whitsell?

1,038 people in the United States had the surname Whitsell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,443 Americans. It ranked 24,201st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Whitsell getting more or less common?

More common. 1,021 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,038 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Whitsell

A surname, carried by 1,038 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W324

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitsell is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,038 people named Whitsell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 297,443 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,021.

#24,201

rank among US surnames

1,038

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #23,283)

Who is named Whitsell

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

91% of people named Whitsell identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; 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 Whitsell

Whitsell 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 Whitsell?: 1,038 people in the United States had the surname Whitsell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,443 Americans. It ranked 24,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whitsell?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Whitsell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Whitsell getting more or less common?: More common. 1,021 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,038 in 2010, up 1.7%.