Applewhite

Applewhite is the 8,566th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,686 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 81,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,686
Rank: 8,566th
How common: 1 in 81,100
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

Habitational surname from the village of Applethwaite, in the Lake District, from Old Norse apaldr (“apple tree”) + þveit (“clearing”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Applewhite described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 58.0%
White, not Hispanic 32.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Applewhite

Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997)American cult leader

People named Applewhite with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Applewhite

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.