The whittle Surname
whittle Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from any of various places named Whittle, especially one in Lancashire, named from Old English hwit ‘white’ + hyll ‘hill’.
- variant of Whitwell.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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