English: habitational name from any of several places named
Whitworth, from the Old English byname Hwita meaning ‘white’
(or the adjective hwit ‘white’) + Old English worð
‘enclosure’. The chief places of this name are in County Durham and
Lancashire, but the surname is fairly evenly distributed throughout
northern England and the Midlands.
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