The surname Witham
A place surname, carried by 4,293 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W350
Origin
From *wiht (“bend”) + hām (“homestead”).
Witham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,293 people named Witham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,918 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,090.
Who is named Witham
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Witham identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Whittome
- Withem
Surnames that sound like Witham
Witham has the Soundex code W350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W350.
Questions
- Where does the surname Witham come from?
- From *wiht (“bend”) + hām (“homestead”).
- How common is the surname Witham?
- 4,293 people in the United States had the surname Witham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,918 Americans. It ranked 7,734th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Witham?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Witham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Witham?
- Witham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Witham getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,090 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,293 in 2010, up 5.0%.
- What are other spellings of Witham?
- Whittome and Withem.