Whiteside
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Whiteside is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: probably ‘person from Whiteside’, a place-name meaning ‘white slope’.
- USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 242K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
11,334 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
probably ‘person from Whiteside’, a place-name meaning ‘white slope’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Whiteside 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.
11,334 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Whiteside 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, nickname ‘white side’ from OE hwīt + sīde ‘side, flank’; first attested Robert Wytside 1230 P (Wa)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, probably a habitation name from any of various minor places so called, from OE hwtt White + side slope of a hill. Reaney, however, quotes early forms without preposi¬ tions and derives the surname from a nickname. Northumb., so called from OE hwit White + feld pasture, open country (see Eield), because of their chalky soil. Var.: Whitefield (places in Lancs, and the Isle of Wight).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A goldeneye (duck) (Bucephala sp.).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jenkin Whitesideb. 1772USAmerican politician (1772-1822)
- Samuel Whitesideb. 1783USAmerican politician and soldier (1783–1866)
- Arnold Whitesideb. 1911GBEnglish footballer (1911-1994)
- Ken Whitesideb. 1929GBEnglish association football player (born 1929)
- Larry Whitesideb. 1937USAmerican journalist
- Norman Whitesideb. 1965GBNorthern Irish footballer (born 1965)
- Matt Whitesideb. 1967USAmerican baseball player
- Eli Whitesideb. 1979USAmerican baseball catcher
- Karyn Whitesideb. 1984FJFijian badminton player
- Hassan Whitesideb. 1989USAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,191 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,255 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #75,762 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 23 | #41,237 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #118,237 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #245,544 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #61,842 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #74,496 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Whiteside mean, and where does it come from?
- probably ‘person from Whiteside’, a place-name meaning ‘white slope’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Whiteside have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Whiteside, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled whiteside.
- Where is Whiteside most common?
- Whiteside is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Whiteside?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,334 people named Whiteside in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whitesideThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Whiteside”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.