Last name: WIGHTMAN
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WIGHTMAN : This last name is indexed 53,874 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WIGHTMAN : English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English wight Older Scots wicht ‘brave strong; swift nimble agile’ (see Wight) + man ‘man’ also used in Middle English as a personal name. It may sometimes have been confused with Whiteman a variant of Whitman.
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