Whitten

At the 2020 census, 13,167 Americans bore the surname Whitten — 2,672nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,700.

By the numbers

People: 13,167
Rank: 2,672nd
How common: 1 in 22,700
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Variant of Whitton.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Whitten

Tara Whitten (born 1980)Canadian track racing cyclist

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

Surnames like Whitten

Also a first name

Whitten has been given to 538 American babies as a first name since 1997, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.