Whitcomb

Whitcomb is the 4,263rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,046 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 37,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,046
Rank: 4,263rd
How common: 1 in 37,100
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Variant of Whitcombe.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Whitcomb

Sami Whitcomb (born 1988)Australian basketball player
Edgar Whitcomb (1917–2016)American politician
Richard T. Whitcomb (1921–2009)US aerospace engineer

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

Surnames like Whitcomb

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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.