Whittaker

Whittaker is the 2,080th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,912 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,700.

By the numbers

People: 16,912
Rank: 2,080th
How common: 1 in 17,700
Per 100,000: 5.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Whittaker

Jodie Whittaker (born 1982)English actress
Robert Whittaker (1920–1980)American ecologist
Roger Whittaker (1936–2023)Kenyan and British musician
E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956)British mathematician
Robert Whittaker (born 1990)Australian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
Steven Whittaker (born 1984)Scottish association football player
Benjamin Whittaker (born 1997)boxer
Tom Whittaker (1898–1956)English footballer and manager

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

Surnames like Whittaker

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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.