as a Last Name
- 9,359
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Whitworth
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of several places named Whitworth, from the Old English byname Hwīta meaning ‘white’ (or the adjective hwīt ‘white’) + Old English worð ‘enclosure’. The chief places of this name are in County Durham and Lancashire, but the surname is fairly evenly distributed throughout northern England and the Midlands.
| 3,311th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,359
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Idaho
- has the most people named Whitworth per capita
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