Whitehouse
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from ‘white house’, dweller at the white stone house; first attested Stephen atte Whitehous 1327 SRSo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Whitehouse is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 504as White(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.1K
- DMDominica1 in 990as White
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Whitehouse itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
660,491 named White, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ‘white house’, dweller at the white stone house; first attested Stephen atte Whitehous 1327 SRSo.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Whitehouse 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 660,491as White | 1 in 504 | 660K | Whitehouse | 357 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 154K | Whitehouse | 228 |
| ES Spain | 1,150as White | 1 in 43K | 1.5K | — | 27 |
| AR Argentina | 580as Cosme | 1 in 78K | 580 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 426as White | 1 in 12K | 426 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 158as White | 1 in 4.7K | 158 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | 75as White | 1 in 990 | 75 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 47as White | 1 in 2.2K | 47 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 23as White | 1 in 2.3K | 23 | — | — |
660,491 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling white. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Whitehouse is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from ‘white neck’; first attested William Whitehals 1369 FrY.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, mon in the W Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived in a white house, from ME whit White + hous House, or habitation name from a place named with these elements, as for example Whittus in Cumb. Vars.; Whithous, Whitters.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, ‘person who lives in a white house’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Goldsmith W. Hewittb. 1834USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1834-1895)
- William Whitehouseb. 1859GBEnglish cellist (1859–1935)
- Mary Whitehouseb. 1910GBBritish conservative activist (1910–2001)
- Mary Whitehouseb. 1911USAmerican psychologist
- Davina Whitehouseb. 1912NZNew Zealand actor (1912-2002)
- Charles Sheldon Whitehouseb. 1921USAmerican diplomat (1921-2001)
- Brian Whitehouseb. 1935GBFootballer; Football coach and scout (1935-2017)
- Sheldon Whitehouseb. 1955USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1955)
- Joe Haginb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1956)
- Paul Whitehouseb. 1958GBWelsh comedian, presenter, actor (born 1958)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16K | #459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.2K | #5,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6K | #5,587 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #35,197 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #34,849 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #20,446 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Whitehouse mean, and where does it come from?
- from ‘white house’, dweller at the white stone house; first attested Stephen atte Whitehous 1327 SRSo. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Whitehouse have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 660 thousand people named White, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Whitehouse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 660,491 people named White in 2010, about 1 in 504 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whitehouseThe 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
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, “Whitehouse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.