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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from any of various places named Whittle, especially one in Lancashire, named from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  • English (chiefly Lancashire) : variant of Whitwell.

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