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    The surname Witherington

    An English place surname, carried by 974 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex W365

    Witherington: #25,403 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Witherington #25,403, 974 people Witherington: #25,403 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Witherington #25,403, 974 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Witherington is more common than 84.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Apparently from Old English wiþegn (“willow copse”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Witherington 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 974 people named Witherington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 316,987 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 941.

    #25,403
    rank among US surnames
    974
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #24,827)

    Who is named Witherington

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

    97% of people named Witherington identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Witherington

    Witherington has the Soundex code W365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W365.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Witherington come from?
    Apparently from Old English wiþegn (“willow copse”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Witherington?
    974 people in the United States had the surname Witherington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 316,987 Americans. It ranked 25,403rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Witherington?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Witherington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Witherington?
    Witherington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Witherington getting more or less common?
    More common. 941 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 974 in 2010, up 3.5%.
    What are other spellings of Witherington?
    Weatherington and Wetherington.