Whitehorne

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘person from Whithorn’, Dumfries and Galloway; ‘white building’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/waɪthɔɹn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Whitehorne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
  • TLTimor-Leste≈1 in 151K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 153K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

167 people, 2010

Sources
107 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)

Timor-Leste, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘person from Whithorn’, Dumfries and Galloway; ‘white building’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Whitehorne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Whitehorne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1671 in 2M167Whitehorne107
GB United Kingdom≈120 est.≈1 in 559K93Whitehorne47
CA Canada≈64 est.≈1 in 590K—Whitehorne40
JM Jamaica≈18 est.≈1 in 153K—Whitehorne9
AU Australia≈14 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Whitehorne18
TL Timor-Leste≈9 est.≈1 in 151K—Whitehorne1
CR Costa Rica41 in 1.3M4Whitehorne4

167 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Whitehorne is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written White-Horne

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Whitehorne,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Whitehorne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010167#106,570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000150#109,328
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020137#129,703
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200293#34,663
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—4#9,015
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Whitehorne mean, and where does it come from?
‘person from Whithorn’, Dumfries and Galloway; ‘white building’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Whitehorne?
A machine transcription gives /waɪthɔɹn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Whitehorne have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 167 people named Whitehorne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled whitehorne.
How common is the name Whitehorne?
In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Whitehorne in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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, “Whitehorne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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