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The WHISTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 400 49366 0 1
United States (1880 census) 135 25560 0 3
Change since 1880 +265 -23806 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 95 14948 0.001 6
United Kingdom 1,221 4449 0.003 27
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of WHISTON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the WHISTON surname.

Ethnic distribution of WHISTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 388 97
White (Hispanic) 8 2
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the WHISTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

WHISTON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of WHISTON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of WHISTON.

Similar names to WHISTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WHISTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for WHISTON

The following words are slight variants of WHISTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.