as a Last Name
- 16,226
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Waite
Meaning & Origins
English: occupational name for a watchman, Anglo-Norman French waite (of Germanic origin; compare Wachter), or from the same word in its original abstract/collective sense, ‘the watch’. There may also have been some late confusion with White.
| 1,938th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,226
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Waite per capita
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