Whittingham
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Whittingham (Lancashire, Northumberland), Whittinghame (East Lothian), or Wittenham (Berkshire); first attested Vhtred de Witingeham 1163 P
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhwɪtɪŋˌhæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Whittingham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 243K
- USUnited States1 in 302K
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
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
1,101 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
St. Kitts & Nevis
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)
from Whittingham (Lancashire, Northumberland), Whittinghame (East Lothian), or Wittenham (Berkshire); first attested Vhtred de Witingeham 1163 P
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Whittingham 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 | 1,101 | 1 in 302K | 1.2K | Whittingham | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 21 | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
1,101 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Whittingham is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, places in Lancs., Northumb., and the former county of
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A civil parish in Preston district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD505345).
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)
- William Whittinghamb. 1524GBEnglish Bible translator and Marian exile
- William Rollinson Whittinghamb. 1805USEpiscopal Bishop of Maryland
- Bob Whittinghamb. 1889GBFootballer (1888-1926)
- Jack Whittinghamb. 1910GBBritish playwright (1910-1972)
- Charles E. Whittinghamb. 1913USAmerican horse trainer (1913-1999)
- Alf Whittinghamb. 1914GBEnglish footballer (1914-1993)
- M. Stanley Whittinghamb. 1941GBNobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist
- Guy Whittinghamb. 1964GBBritish footballer (born 1964)
- Peter Whittinghamb. 1984GBEnglish footballer (1984–2020)
- Ken WhittinghamUSAmerican television director
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 989 | #23,848 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 21 | #3,566 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #83,483 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #79,911 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| 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 Whittingham mean, and where does it come from?
- from Whittingham (Lancashire, Northumberland), Whittinghame (East Lothian), or Wittenham (Berkshire); first attested Vhtred de Witingeham 1163 P Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Whittingham?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhwɪtɪŋˌhæm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Whittingham have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Whittingham, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled whittingham.
- Where is Whittingham most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Whittingham is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Whittingham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,101 people named Whittingham in 2010, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whittinghamThe 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, “Whittingham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.