The surname Whittlesey
An English place surname, carried by 1,018 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex W342
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name *Wittel + -s- + īeġ (“island”).
Whittlesey 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 1,018 people named Whittlesey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. That is down 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,061.
Who is named Whittlesey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Whittlesey identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.9%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Whittlesea
- Whitsey
Surnames that sound like Whittlesey
Whittlesey has the Soundex code W342, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W342.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Whittlesey come from?
- From the Old English personal name *Wittel + -s- + īeġ (“island”).
- How common is the surname Whittlesey?
- 1,018 people in the United States had the surname Whittlesey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. It ranked 24,554th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Whittlesey?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Whittlesey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Whittlesey?
- Whittlesey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Whittlesey getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,061 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,018 in 2010, down 4.1%.
- What are other spellings of Whittlesey?
- Whittlesea and Whitsey.