Last name: WHITTLE
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WHITTLE : This last name is indexed 107,546 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHITTLE : English: habitational name from Whittle (Lancashire Northumberland) Whittle le Woods (Lancashire) or a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) white hill’ from Middle English whit(te) ‘white’ + hil(le) ‘hill’. Alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) clear spring or stream’ from Middle English whit(te) + wel(la) wel(l)e ‘spring stream’. Occasionally this name may have been confused with Whitehall.
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