Whiting

At the 2020 census, 16,104 Americans bore the surname Whiting — 2,204th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,104
Rank: 2,204th
How common: 1 in 18,600
Per 100,000: 5.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Whiting

Leonard Whiting (born 1950)British actor
Charlie Whiting (1952–2019)Formula One race director
Ryan Whiting (born 1986)American shot putter
Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927)American physicist and astronomer
Margaret Whiting (1924–2011)American recording artist; singer
Richard A. Whiting (1891–1938)American composer and songwriter

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

Surnames like Whiting

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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.