Last name: WHITE
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Last name frequency
WHITE : This last name is indexed 2,556,027 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHITE : A name given from the color of the hair, or complexion. The name may be also local, derived from the Isle of Wight, on the coast of Hampshire, so called from the Welsh, Guydd, wood, from its primitive forest.
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