Whitehead Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

Whitehead Name Meaning: A nickname for someone with very fair or white hair.

From the Middle English \"whit\" and \"heved\", Whitehead was a nickname for someone with prematurely white hair.

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Buckinghamshire 100
Cambridgeshire 77
Cardiganshire 2
Channel Islands 3
Cheshire 578
Carmarthenshire 1
Cornwall 2
Cumberland 40
Derbyshire 211
Devon 16
Dorset 5
Durham 66
Essex 93
Flintshire 11
Glamorgan 4
Gloucestershire 105
Hampshire 46
Hertfordshire 55
Hunts and Rutland 60
Isle of Man 2
Kent 557
Lancashire 4,435
Leicestershire 78
Lincolnshire 182
London 944
Middlesex 68
Monmouthshire 9
Northumberland 106
Norfolk 37
Northamptonshire 87
Nottinghamshire 248
Oxfordshire 39
Shropshire 43
Suffolk 78
Somerset 96
Surrey 40
Sussex 18
Staffordshire 163
Warwickshire 342
Westmorland 177
Wiltshire 23
Worcestershire 13
Yorkshire 2,733
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Whitehead Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Whitehead family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 298
Female Servant 278
Cotton Weaver 253
Independent 239
Labourer 177
Weaver 146
Farmer 137
Silk Weaver 92
Woollen Weaver 83
Shoe Maker 77
Male Servant 72
Cotton Spinner 72
Coal Miner 65
Cotton Piecer 64
Tailor 60
Ag Lab 59
Joiner 43
Dress Maker 41
Ag Labourer 37
Blacksmith 35
Hatter 35
Carpenter 34
Publican 33
Butcher 29
Dyer 27

Most Frequent Forenames for Whitehead

Name Census Frequency
Mary Whitehead 9,651
John Whitehead 9,092
William Whitehead 7,735
James Whitehead 5,766
Sarah Whitehead 5,743
Elizabeth Whitehead 5,634
Thomas Whitehead 5,117
George Whitehead 3,916
Ann Whitehead 3,262
Joseph Whitehead 2,994
Jane Whitehead 2,553
Alice Whitehead 2,528
Hannah Whitehead 2,323
Henry Whitehead 2,187
Robert Whitehead 1,971
Charles Whitehead 1,930
Annie Whitehead 1,824
Ellen Whitehead 1,755
Eliza Whitehead 1,720
Emma Whitehead 1,695
Samuel Whitehead 1,631
Martha Whitehead 1,607
Margaret Whitehead 1,545
Edward Whitehead 1,445
Arthur Whitehead 1,183

Whitehead Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Whitehead 100% 137,315
2 Whithead 89% 5,334

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