as a Last Name
- 47,929
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Whitehead
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: nickname for someone with fair or prematurely white hair, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + heved ‘head’.
| 714th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 47,929
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Whitehead per capita
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