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witte Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: variant of Witt 1.
  2. Dutch: nickname for someone with white or blonde hair or an unusually pale complexion, from Middle Dutch witte ‘white’.
  3. English: variant of White.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of witte Families in the US in 1920
Number of witte families
 90-177
 31-89
 1-30
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