habitational name from any of various places named
Whitmore, for example in Staffordshire, from Old English
hwit ‘white’ + mor ‘moor’.Some bearers of the
name are descended from John of Whytenmere, Shropshire, who lived in
the 13th century. This form is probably a variant of Whittimere, a
place on the Staffordshire–Shropshire border, named in Old English
most probably as ‘pool associated with someone called Hwita’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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