Willingham

At the 2020 census, 12,085 Americans bore the surname Willingham — 2,906th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,085
Rank: 2,906th
How common: 1 in 24,700
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name *Wifel + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.4%
Black, not Hispanic 29.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Willingham

Travis Willingham (born 1981)American voice actor
Noble Willingham (1931–2004)American actor

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

Surnames like Willingham

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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.