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Meaning & Origins
Mainly North American: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of various places in England named with the Middle English phrase atten whiten ey ‘by the white island’. In the 1980s its popularity as a girl's name was enhanced by the fame of the American singer Whitney Houston (b. 1963).
| 559th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.
| 33rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Whittney, Whitne, Whitnie, Whitnee, Whitten, Whitni, Whitn, Whitny, Whittany, Whiteny
Wrigley, Wrightson, Wrightsman, Wrights, Wrighton, Wrightington, Wrighten, Wrigh, Wrigglesworth, Wrigth
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