How common is the last name Waite?

17,416 people in the United States have the last name Waite, about 1 in 17,162. It ranks #2,028 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

WAITE

#2,028

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
17,416
About
1 in 17,162
This common or more
48%
Who bears it

Of the 17,416 people with the last name Waite, 83.9% reported their origin as White, 7.8% as Black and 3.6% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Waite

#2,026 Woody · 17,436#2,027 Flaherty · 17,426#2,029 Bueno · 17,395#2,030 Mathew · 17,393

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Waite, most common first.

#10,659 Wait · 2,862#34,781 Waide · 700#36,570 Waithe · 658#42,735 Waitt · 546#102,164 Wayte · 188

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