Last Name WITTMAN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, German, Slovakian, Hungarian

Rank	6,763 (2000 US census)	7,929 (1990 US census)

Count	4,593 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.62%, or 4392 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.37%, or 17 total occurrences, as black,
0.59%, or 27 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.61%, or 28 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.18%, or 54 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.63%, or 75 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...