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whitlock Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for someone with white or fair hair, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + lock ‘tress’, ‘curl’. Compare Sherlock.
  2. from an Old English personal name composed of the elements wiht ‘creature’, ‘demon’ + lac ‘play’, ‘sport’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of whitlock Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitlock families
 105-208
 36-104
 1-35
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