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whitaker Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places named with Old English hwit ‘white’ or hw?te ‘wheat’ + æcer ‘cultivated land’, as for example Whitaker in Lancashire and Whitacre in Warwickshire (both ‘white field’) or Whiteacre in Kent and Wheatacre in Norfolk (both ‘wheat field’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of whitaker Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitaker families
 235-467
 79-234		 1-78
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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