The whitton Surname
whitton Name Meaning and History
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various minor
places so called, for example in Morebattle in the Scottish Borders,
in county Durham, Greater London, Suffolk, and elsewhere, all named
with Old English hwit ‘white’ (or the Old English personal
name Hwita) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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