Whiteside
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably ‘person from Whiteside’, a place-name meaning ‘white slope’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Whiteside is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 11,334 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Whiteside is also written Уайтсайд in Cyrillic.
- 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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
11,334 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Whiteside in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Whiteside is found
(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)
- Norman Whitesideb. 1965GBNorthern Irish footballer (born 1965)
- 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
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].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Whiteside?
- 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. After it come Spain, Finland, Poland and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whitesideThe 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, “Whiteside” — ranked 3026th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.