Whitehead

At the 2020 census, 42,089 Americans bore the surname Whitehead — 800th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,102.

By the numbers

People: 42,089
Rank: 800th
How common: 1 in 7,102
Per 100,000: 14.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.7%
Black, not Hispanic 23.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)English mathematician and philosopher
Colson Whitehead (born 1969)American novelist
Fionn Whitehead (born 1997)British actor
Dean Whitehead (born 1982)English association football player
Gustave Whitehead (1874–1927)possible first powered manned flight
Peter Whitehead (1914–1958)English racing driver
Isaiah Whitehead (born 1995)American basketball player
Robert Whitehead (1823–1905)English engineer

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

Surnames like Whitehead

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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.