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Waite Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman, Anglo-Norman French
waite (of Germanic origin; compare Wachter), or from the
same word in its original abstract/collective sense, ‘the
watch’. There may also have been some late confusion with
White.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Waite
Name Distribution of Waite Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waite families
 232 - 462  78 - 231 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Waite families
|
883 - 1,763 295 - 882 |
1 - 294 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waite families
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22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Waite Family Origin
Waite Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Waite
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Waite Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Waite census records
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Waite Civil War Service Records
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