First name origin & meaning: Old English: White First name variations: White, Whitey, Whitcomb, Whitby, Whitelaw, Whitfield, Whitford, Whitley, Whitlock, Whitmore, Whittaker, Whit Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from Middle English whit ‘white’ + man
‘man’, either a nickname with the same sense as White, or else
an occupational name for a servant of a bearer of the nickname
White.
- John Whitman settled in Weymouth, MA, in about 1638.
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