Whetstine Surname

343,060th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,069 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Whetstine Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Whetstine Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,0641:340,65730,669
England21:27,859,030389,889
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Djibouti11:914,9321,612
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1121:448,38132,409

Whetstine Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Whetstine Come From? nationality or country of origin

Whetstine is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Whetstine? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 343,060th most commonly occurring last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 6,817,162 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Whetstine are found; 100 percent are found in North America and 100 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname Whetstine is most widespread in The United States, where it is held by 1,064 people, or 1 in 340,657. In The United States Whetstine is mostly concentrated in: North Carolina, where 10 percent reside, Indiana, where 8 percent reside and Iowa, where 7 percent reside. Excluding The United States it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent reside and Canada, where 0 percent reside.

Whetstine Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Whetstine has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Whetstine surname expanded 950 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Whetstine Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Whetstine last name are 29.83% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 76.6% being registered with the party.

Whetstine earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 4.84% less than the national average, earning $41,062 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Whetstine
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