How common is the surname Whitton?

3,246 people in the United States had the surname Whitton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,116 Americans. It ranked 9,940th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Whitton?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Whitton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Whitton?

Margaret Whitton, American actress (1950–2016).

Where is the surname Whitton most common?

Wikidata records people named Whitton in the United States.

How do you pronounce Whitton?

Whitton is /ˈwɪtən/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Whitton getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,246 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Whitton

An English place surname, carried by 3,246 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈwɪtən/ 2 syllables Soundex W350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitton is more common than 93.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

Ultimately from the Old English personal name Hwīta, a byname from hwīt (“white”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Whitton 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 3,246 people named Whitton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,116 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,266.

#9,940

rank among US surnames

3,246

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #9,185)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,931	Tso	3,249	95,028
#9,932	Olney	3,248	95,057
#9,940	McCarroll	3,246	95,116
#9,949	Schantz	3,245	95,145

Who is named Whitton

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

92% of people named Whitton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Whittons

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Margaret Whitton
American actress (1950–2016)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Whitton

Whitton has the Soundex code W350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W350.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Whitton come from?: Ultimately from the Old English personal name Hwīta, a byname from hwīt (“white”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Whitton?: 3,246 people in the United States had the surname Whitton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,116 Americans. It ranked 9,940th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Whitton?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Whitton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Whitton?: Margaret Whitton, American actress (1950–2016).
Where is the surname Whitton most common?: Wikidata records people named Whitton in the United States.
How do you pronounce Whitton?: Whitton is /ˈwɪtən/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Whitton?: Whitton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Whitton getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,246 in 2010, down 0.6%.