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whitney Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English eg ‘island’, ‘piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwitan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwita (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwit ‘white’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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whitney Family Facts

Distribution of whitney Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitney families
 532-1062
 178-531		 1-177
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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