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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname for someone with white hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from a Middle Low German witte ‘white’.
  • South German : from a short form of the old German personal name Wittigo.
  • English : variant of White.

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