Last name: WHITEHEAD
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WHITEHEAD : This last name is indexed 350,424 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHITEHEAD : 1: English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod) denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).2: Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan) as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.3: Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf).
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