Whiffen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps person from an unidentified place called Whiffen, meaning ‘white marsh’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʋɪfən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Whiffen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps person from an unidentified place called Whiffen, meaning ‘white marsh’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Whiffenb. 1819Whiffen, Thomas (1819–1904), manufacturer of fine chemicals
- Blanche Whiffenb. 1845USAmerican actress (1845-1936)
- Alfred Herbert Whiffenb. 1856(1856-1893)
- Edwin Thomas Whiffenb. 1874USAmerican author and teacher
- Thomas Whiffenb. 1878GBBritish army officer and explorer (1878–1922)
- Thomas Whiffen Jr.b. 1879USAmerican actor and farmer
- Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdaleb. 1916USAmerican mycologist (1916-1981)
- Kingsley Whiffenb. 1950GBassociation football player (1950-2006)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 657 | #9,185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 367 | #55,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 347 | #62,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 347 | #55,376 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Whiffen mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps person from an unidentified place called Whiffen, meaning ‘white marsh’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Whiffen?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋɪfən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Whiffen have the most bearers?
- Whiffen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whiffenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
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These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Whiffen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.