Whitaker

Whitaker is an English surname, originally meaning "white field" or "wheat field." It appears as both a family name and occasional given name: Justice Whitaker wrote the dissenting opinion.

Variant spellings include Whittaker and Whitacre.

British-origin

Anglo-Saxon

Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples

place-name · Norman · medieval · Domesday · parish · settlement · etymology · regional · dialect · Midlands

surname

family

Related people together

  • ancestryFamily line of descent
  • lineageDescent from progenitors
  • clanRelated group sharing ancestry

kinship · bloodline · pedigree · genealogy · descendants · forebears · relatives · heirs · dynasty · patriarch

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Phrases
Family

white, whiter, whitest, whiten, whitening, whiteness, whitish

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