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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) and Scottish (also northern Ireland) : probably a habitational name from any of various minor places named Whiteside, from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + sīde ‘slope (of a hill)’. Reaney, however, quotes early forms without prepositions and derives the surname from a nickname.

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