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    The surname Witte

    A surname, carried by 9,816 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W300

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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). Witte is more common than 97.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 9,816 people named Witte in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,453 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,454.

    #3,617
    rank among US surnames
    9,816
    people in 2010
    3.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #3,458)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,608Kuykendall9,84131,373
    #3,609Ye9,83931,380
    #3,610Chou9,83431,396
    #3,611Caswell9,82731,418
    #3,612Weinberg9,82531,424
    #3,613McMurray9,82431,428
    #3,615Musser9,82031,440

    Who is named Witte

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

    96% of people named Witte identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Witte

    Witte 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 Witte?
    9,816 people in the United States had the surname Witte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,453 Americans. It ranked 3,617th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Witte?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Witte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Witte getting more or less common?
    More common. 9,454 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,816 in 2010, up 3.8%.