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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Protector

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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