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Witherspoon Name Meaning
Scottish: of uncertain origin, perhaps a habitational name from an
unidentified place named with Middle English wether ‘sheep’,
‘ram’ + spong, spang, a dialect term for a narrow strip
of land.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Witherspoon
Name Distribution of Witherspoon Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Witherspoon families
 103 - 204  35 - 102 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Witherspoon families
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28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Witherspoon families
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17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Witherspoon Family Origin
Witherspoon Immigration Information
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Witherspoon Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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