Whitfield

At the 2020 census, 29,052 Americans bore the surname Whitfield — 1,187th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,300.

By the numbers

People: 29,052
Rank: 1,187th
How common: 1 in 10,300
Per 100,000: 9.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hwīt (“white”) + feld (“field”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 47.5%
White, not Hispanic 43.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Whitfield

Andy Whitfield (1971–2011)Welsh actor
Mal Whitfield (1924–2015)American middle-distance runner and sprinter
Simon Whitfield (born 1975)Canadian triathlete
Lynn Whitfield (born 1953)American actress
June Whitfield (1925–2018)English actress
Beverley Whitfield (1954–1996)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist
Norman Whitfield (1940–2008)American songwriter, record producer
Mark Whitfield (born 1966)American musician

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

Surnames like Whitfield

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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.