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- 14,280
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Whitmore
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name from any of various places named Whitmore, for example in Staffordshire, from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + mōr ‘moor’. 2. Some bearers of the name are descended from John of Whytenmere, Shropshire, who lived in the 13th century. This form is probably a variant of Whittimere, a place on the Staffordshire–Shropshire border, named in Old English most probably as ‘pool associated with someone called Hwīta’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,280
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Whitmore per capita
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