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    The surname Whitt

    A surname, carried by 17,293 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W300

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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). Whitt is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,293 people named Whitt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,854 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,488.

    #2,092
    rank among US surnames
    17,293
    people in 2010
    5.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #2,016)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,083Madsen17,36417,781
    #2,084Cavazos17,36117,784
    #2,085Burrows17,35517,790
    #2,086Busch17,35417,791
    #2,087Burroughs17,33617,810
    #2,088Schuster17,32517,821
    #2,089Bagley17,32417,822

    Who is named Whitt

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

    85% of people named Whitt identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whitt

    Whitt has the Soundex code W300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whitt?
    17,293 people in the United States had the surname Whitt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,854 Americans. It ranked 2,092nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitt?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Whitt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whitt getting more or less common?
    More common. 16,488 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,293 in 2010, up 4.9%.