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    The surname Witherow

    A surname, carried by 1,549 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W360

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Witherow is more common than 88.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,549 people named Witherow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 199,319 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,376.

    #18,018
    rank among US surnames
    1,549
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.6%
    change since 2000 (was #18,506)

    Who is named Witherow

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

    91% of people named Witherow identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Witherow

    Witherow has the Soundex code W360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W360.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Witherow?
    1,549 people in the United States had the surname Witherow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 199,319 Americans. It ranked 18,018th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Witherow?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Witherow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Witherow getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,376 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,549 in 2010, up 13%.