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whitworth Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places named Whitworth, from the Old English byname Hwita meaning ‘white’ (or the adjective hwit ‘white’) + Old English worð ‘enclosure’. The chief places of this name are in County Durham and Lancashire, but the surname is fairly evenly distributed throughout northern England and the Midlands.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of whitworth Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitworth families
 68-134
 23-67		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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