The Whitmer surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,317 people carried this name — #6,398 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 55,600 people counted. That is up 5% from 5,077 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Whitmer surname

Reduced variant of Whitmore.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Whitmer» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Whitmer in American newspapers,
1910–1922.

Newspaper page from Albuquerque Morning Journal carrying the name Whitmer
Albuquerque Morning Journal 1922-07-11
Newspaper page from Albuquerque Morning Journal carrying the name Whitmer
Albuquerque Morning Journal 1922-07-10
Newspaper page from The Salt Lake Tribune carrying the name Whitmer
The Salt Lake Tribune 1910-05-02

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Whitmer in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1930s.

38 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Whitmer. The most, 11, date from the 1890s.

Articles, by state

Victoria 13
Western Australia 9
South Australia 5
New South Wales 4
Queensland 2
Tasmania 2
ACT (Canberra) 1
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Whitmer.

Who carried it

People named Whitmer,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Jacob Whitmer
    Jacob Whitmer 1800–1856 · writer
  • John Whitmer
    John Whitmer 1802–1878 · editor
  • David Whitmer
    David Whitmer 1805–1888 · politician
  • Christian Whitmer 1746–1776
  • Peter Whitmer, Sr. 1773–1854 · writer
  • Mary Whitmer 1778–1856 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Whitmer,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States241 records

241 records of the Whitmer name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 155
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 48
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 18
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 9
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Elmer L. Whitmer

    Born 1912 in Indiana. Enlisted 1942 at Evansville; clerk from Vanderburg County. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Fort Custer National Cemetery, Michigan.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Alfred Van Whitmer

    Born 1947; from Morenci, Arizona. U.S. Marine Corps, combat engineer; killed in action 1968 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Fred Whitmer

    Arrived at New Orleans in 1844 aboard the Trenton from Bremen, aged 21; tinman-iron worker. From Hanover, Germany.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 241 records for Whitmer in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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