Last Name WHITNEY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: Of Whitney, a parish in county Hereford. County Hereford is the chief home for this family, but theformerly well-known town in county Oxford must have swelled the total.
Origin English, Jewish, French, German, Irish, Anglo-saxon, Falkland

Rank 934 (2000 US census) 783 (1990 US census)
Count 34,251 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 87.11%, or 29836 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 8.41%, or 2881 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.72%, or 247 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.66%, or 226 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.46%, or 500 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.64%, or 562 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

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