Whitton

Whitton is the 10,554th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,899 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,899
Rank: 10,554th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Ultimately from the Old English personal name Hwīta, a byname from hwīt (“white”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Whitton

Margaret Whitton (1949–2016)American actress
Charlotte Whitton (1896–1975)Canadian politician

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

Surnames like Whitton

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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.