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The whittier Surname

whittier Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a white-leather dresser, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + taw(i)er ‘tawer’ (from an agent derivative of Middle English taw(en) ‘to prepare’).

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

Distribution of whittier Families in the US in 1920
Number of whittier families
 90-178
 31-89		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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