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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a bright or inventive person, from Middle English witty ‘clever’, ‘ingenious’. It is possible that some early examples may represent a survival into Middle English of Old English wītega ‘soothsayer’, and there may also have been some confusion with Whitty.

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