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    The surname Whorton

    A surname, carried by 2,892 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W635

    Whorton: #10,998 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whorton #10,998, 2,892 people Whorton: #10,998 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whorton #10,998, 2,892 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whorton is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    Perhaps a variant of Worton.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,892 people named Whorton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,758 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,786.

    #10,998
    rank among US surnames
    2,892
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #10,570)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,993Chupp2,893106,722
    #10,998Killebrew2,892106,758
    #11,003Charpentier2,891106,795
    #11,007Hipolito2,890106,832

    Who is named Whorton

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

    84% of people named Whorton identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whorton

    Whorton has the Soundex code W635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W635.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Whorton come from?
    Perhaps a variant of Worton.
    How common is the surname Whorton?
    2,892 people in the United States had the surname Whorton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,758 Americans. It ranked 10,998th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whorton?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Whorton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whorton getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,892 in 2010, up 3.8%.