Gitting Family History
Gitting Name Meaning
from Guiting Power or Temple Guiting in Gloucs recorded as Getinge in 1086 Gutinge Guyting Gyting Gettinge and Gitting in the 13th century. The place-name derives from Old English gyte ‘a pouring forth a flood’ + the river name-forming suffix -ing. It is nowadays pronounced /gaitiŋ/ but surname preserves the older pronunciation /gɪtiŋ/. see Gitton .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016