Witt Family History
Witt Name Meaning
North German: nickname for someone with white hair or a
remarkably pale complexion, from a Middle Low German witte
‘white’.South German: from a short form of the old German
personal name Wittigo.English: variant of
White.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Witt Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Witt families
 251 - 499  84 - 250 |
 1 - 83  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Witt families
|
226 - 449 76 - 225 |
1 - 75 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Witt families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Witt census records
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Witt Family Origin
Witt Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Witt
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Witt Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Witt Civil War Service Records
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