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whitehead Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: nickname for someone with fair or prematurely white hair, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + heved ‘head’.
  2. Irish (Connacht): erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
  3. Translated form of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of whitehead Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitehead families
 291-579
 98-290		 1-97
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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