Boy name origins & meanings Old English : White Boy name variations Whit White Whitey Whitcomb Whitby Whitelaw Whitfield Whitford Whitley Whitlock Whitmore Whittaker Family name origins & meanings English : from Middle English whit ‘white’ + man‘man’, either a nickname with the same sense as White, or else an occupational name for a servant of a bearer of the nicknameWhite.John Whitman settled in Weymouth, MA, in about 1638.
