Whittington

At the 2020 census, 16,745 Americans bore the surname Whittington — 2,099th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,800.

By the numbers

People: 16,745
Rank: 2,099th
How common: 1 in 17,800
Per 100,000: 5.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.0%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Whittington

Harry B. Whittington (1916–2010)British paleontologist
Andrew Whittington (born 1993)Australian tennis player
Richard Whittington (1354–1423)four times Lord Mayor of London
Shayne Whittington (born 1991)American basketball player and coach

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

Surnames like Whittington

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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.