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witt Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: nickname for someone with white hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from a Middle Low German witte ‘white’.
  2. South German: from a short form of the old German personal name Wittigo.
  3. English: variant of White.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of witt Families in the US in 1920
Number of witt families
 251-499
 84-250
 1-83
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