Wilhite
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɪɫˌhaɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilhite is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 66K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 112K
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)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
8,325 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
San Marino, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilhite 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 | 8,325 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Wilhite | 341 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Wilhite | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Wilhite | 20 |
| EG Egypt | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Wilhite | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Wilhite | 24 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Wilhite | 2 |
| CU Cuba | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Wilhite | 2 |
| CV Cape Verde | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Wilhite | 1 |
| SM San Marino | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Wilhite | 1 |
8,325 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Holloway Wilhiteb. 1831USAmerican physician, philanthropist, suffragist, women's rights activist, writer
- Virgle Glenn Wilhiteb. 1895USPh.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1940
- Robert Wilhiteb. 1946USAmerican artist (born 1946)
- Steve Wilhiteb. 1948USAmerican theoretical computer scientist (1948–2022)
- Jodi Wilhiteb. 1980weightlifter
- Jonathan Wilhiteb. 1984USAmerican football player
- Sarah Wilhiteb. 1995USUS volleyball player
- Brad Wilhitefilm editor
- George Wilhiteauthor
- David WilhiteUSPh.D. University of Southern California 1995
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.3K | #4,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.8K | #4,213 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.8K | #4,411 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Wilhite?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪɫˌhaɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wilhite have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Wilhite, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilhite.
- How common is the name Wilhite?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,325 people named Wilhite in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilhiteThe 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, “Wilhite”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.