Whitmire Surname

51,863rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9,877 people bear this surname

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

Whitmire Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Whitmire Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States9,8481:36,8054,566
Germany101:8,050,546248,660
Philippines81:12,654,778228,986
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
England11:55,718,059489,080
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Haiti11:10,683,90724,607
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,0091:49,7715,659

Whitmire Last Name Facts

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

The last name Whitmire is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Whitmire? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 51,863rd most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 737,830 people. The last name is mostly found in The Americas, where 96 percent of Whitmire reside; 96 percent reside in North America and 96 percent reside in Anglo-North America.

Whitmire is most widely held in The United States, where it is carried by 9,848 people, or 1 in 36,805. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: Georgia, where 17 percent live, Texas, where 17 percent live and South Carolina, where 9 percent live. Other than The United States it exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 0 percent live and The Philippines, where 0 percent live.

Whitmire Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Whitmire has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Whitmire last name increased 976 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Whitmire Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Whitmire are 22.33% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 69.1% being registered with the political party.

Whitmire earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.15% less than the national average, earning $41,791 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 Whitmire
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