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The WITTY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,964 14069 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 614 8182 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1350 -5887 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 109 13270 0.001 7
United Kingdom 592 7867 0.001 13
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 WITTY

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

Ethnic distribution of WITTY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 137 6.98
White (Hispanic) 49 2.49
Mixed Race 35 1.78
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.61
Asian/Pacific 10 0.51
White (Caucasian) 1,721 87.63

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

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

Meaning of WITTY in historical publications

WITTY. Clever, sagacious, was the meaning of this word in ancient times.

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 WITTY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WITTY.

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 WITTY

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