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    The surname Whitty

    A surname, carried by 1,432 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W300

    Whitty: #19,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whitty #19,019, 1,432 people Whitty: #19,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whitty #19,019, 1,432 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitty is more common than 88.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,432 people named Whitty in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,604 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,352.

    #19,019
    rank among US surnames
    1,432
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.9%
    change since 2000 (was #18,755)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,012McGuffey1,433215,454
    #19,019Whitty1,432215,604
    #19,027Euceda1,431215,755

    Who is named Whitty

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

    73% of people named Whitty identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Whittys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Lucinda Whitty
      Australian sailor, born 1989

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whitty

    Whitty 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 Whitty?
    1,432 people in the United States had the surname Whitty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,604 Americans. It ranked 19,019th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitty?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Whitty identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Whitty?
    Lucinda Whitty, Australian sailor.
    Where is the surname Whitty most common?
    Wikidata records people named Whitty in Australia.
    Is the surname Whitty getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,352 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,432 in 2010, up 5.9%.