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wheat Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of wheat, from Old English hw?te ‘wheat’ (a derivative of hwit ‘white’, because of its use in making white flour).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wheat Families in the US in 1920
Number of wheat families
 84-166
 29-83		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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