as a Last Name
- 8,905
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Wilhite
Meaning & Origins
German: Americanized spelling of Willeit, a variant of Willeitner, a habitational name from a more recent form of the place name Weillitnen in northern Bavaria. Willeit is probably also a topographic name from Middle High German wīl ‘small settlement’ + leite ‘slope’.
| 4,030th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,905
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Wilhite per capita
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