Whatley

Whatley is the 3,223rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,919 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,400.

By the numbers

People: 10,919
Rank: 3,223rd
How common: 1 in 27,400
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hwǣte (“wheat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent. Identical to Wheatley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.4%
Black, not Hispanic 22.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Whatley

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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.