as a Last Name
- 2,308
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Whitby
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from the port in North Yorkshire named Whitby, from Old Norse hvítr ‘white’ or the personal name Hvíti + býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, or from a place of the same name in Cheshire, originally named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ (i.e. stone-built) + burh ‘manor house’, ‘fortified place’.
| 11,658th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,308
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virginia
- has the most people named Whitby per capita
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