Whyte

Whyte is the 4,038th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,536 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 35,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,536
Rank: 4,038th
How common: 1 in 35,000
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

From whyte (“white”). Uncertain semantics.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 46.6%
Black, not Hispanic 43.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Whyte

Rosemarie Whyte (born 1986)Jamaican athletics competitor
Derek Whyte (born 1968)Scottish footballer
Ian Whyte (born 1971)Welsh actor, stuntman, and basketball player
Gavin Whyte (born 1996)Northern Irish association football player
Dillian Whyte (born 1988)British boxer
Kye Whyte (born 1999)British male BMX rider
William Foote Whyte (1914–2000)American sociologist

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

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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.