Whittle

6,740 people in the United States were counted with the surname Whittle in the 2020 census, making it the 5,046th most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,740
Rank: 5,046th
How common: 1 in 44,300
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Whittle

Frank Whittle (1907–1996)British Royal Air Force engineer air officer
Ricky Whittle (born 1981)English actor and model
Jenny Whittle (born 1973)Australian basketball player

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

Surnames like Whittle

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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.