as a Last Name
- 39,285
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Whitney
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from a place in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island’, ‘piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’.
| 888th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 39,285
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Whitney per capita
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