The waite Surname
waite Name Meaning and History
English: occupational name for a watchman, Anglo-Norman French
waite (of Germanic origin; compare Wachter), or from the
same word in its original abstract/collective sense, ‘the
watch’. There may also have been some late confusion with
White.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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