Whitlock

16,129 people in the United States were counted with the surname Whitlock in the 2020 census, making it the 2,202nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,500.

By the numbers

People: 16,129
Rank: 2,202nd
How common: 1 in 18,500
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Whytlok, Whitelok, Witloc, Wictlok, Wyhtlok, Witlok, Whytlak, Whitlak; partly from Old English witlāc, wihtlāc and partly from Middle English whyt (“white”) + lok (“lock, hair”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
Black, not Hispanic 15.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Whitlock

Max Whitlock (born 1993)British artistic gymnast
Harold Whitlock (1903–1985)British athlete
Isiah Whitlock Jr. (1954–2025)American actor
Anna Whitlock (1852–1930)Swedish feminist
Simon Whitlock (born 1969)Australian darts player
Brand Whitlock (1869–1934)American diplomat

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

Surnames like Whitlock

Try it on yourself

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.