Whitman

Whitman is the 1,905th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,508 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,100.

By the numbers

People: 18,508
Rank: 1,905th
How common: 1 in 16,100
Per 100,000: 6.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)American poet, essayist and journalist
Meg Whitman (born 1956)American business executive
Mae Whitman (born 1988)American actress
Stuart Whitman (1928–2020)American actor
Charles Whitman (1941–1966)American mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shooting
Christine Todd Whitman (born 1946)American politician and author
Slim Whitman (1923–2013)American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
Malcolm Whitman (1877–1932)American tennis player

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

Surnames like Whitman

Also a first name

Whitman has been given to 901 American babies as a first name since 1909, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

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.