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    The surname Whittingham

    An English place surname, carried by 1,101 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W352

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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). Whittingham is more common than 85.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Hwīta + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,101 people named Whittingham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,423 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 989.

    #23,167
    rank among US surnames
    1,101
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.3%
    change since 2000 (was #23,848)

    Who is named Whittingham

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

    49% of people named Whittingham identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 49%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 43%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    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 Whittingham

    Whittingham has the Soundex code W352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W352.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Whittingham come from?
    From the Old English personal name Hwīta + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
    How common is the surname Whittingham?
    1,101 people in the United States had the surname Whittingham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,423 Americans. It ranked 23,167th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whittingham?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Whittingham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Whittingham?
    Whittingham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Whittingham getting more or less common?
    More common. 989 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,101 in 2010, up 11%.