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The WHITLOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,603 2003 0.006 62
United States (1880 census) 4,319 1440 0.009 86
Change since 1880 +12284 -563 -0.003 -24
Other Countries
Australia 416 3778 0.003 25
United Kingdom 2,513 2437 0.005 55
Top States for WHITLOCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,219 2021 0.006 58
Georgia 1,213 917 0.015 148
Virginia 1,183 760 0.017 167
California 1,081 2975 0.003 32
Florida 894 2355 0.006 56
Top States for WHITLOCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 822 810 0.020 205
Wyoming 83 662 0.017 168
Virginia 1,183 760 0.017 167
Georgia 1,213 917 0.015 148
Kentucky 596 1000 0.015 147

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.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called WHITLOCK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called WHITLOCK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called WHITLOCK in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a WHITLOCK by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of WHITLOCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the WHITLOCK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the WHITLOCK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of WHITLOCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 247 1.49
White (Hispanic) 237 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 96 0.58
Asian/Pacific 56 0.34
White (Caucasian) 13,442 80.96
Black/African American 2,524 15.2

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

Meaning of WHITLOCK in historical publications

AAHITELOCK. WHITLOCK. From

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to WHITLOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WHITLOCK.

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 WHITLOCK

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