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whitson Name Meaning and History

Scottish: patronymic from White as a personal name, or translation of any of the many Gaelic names based on fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1) or bán ‘white’ (see Bain 1), as for example McLennan and McBain.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of whitson Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitson 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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