The whitworth Surname
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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