White (surname)

White is a surname either of English^[1] or of Scottish and Irish origin, the latter being an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic MacGillebhàin, "Son of the fair gillie" and the Irish "Mac Faoitigh" or "de Faoite".^[2]^[3]^[4] It is the seventeenth most common surname in England.^[5] In the 1990 United States Census, "White" ranked fourteenth among all reported surnames in frequency, accounting for 0.28% of the population.^[6] By 2000, White had fallen to position 20 in the United States^[7] and 22nd position by 2014^[5]

Notable people with the surname include:

White (Hampshire cricketer) (active 1789–1797, full name unknown), English cricketer
White (Surrey cricketer) (active 1850, full name unknown), English cricketer

^ White Meaning at Forebears
^ "White Family History". Ancestry.com.
^ "Irish Surname – White".
^ Scottish Clans and their Tartans (1958), W. and A. K. Johnson, p. 22
^ ^a ^b White Distribution at Forebears
^ United States Census Bureau (9 May 1995). 1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1–100). Retrieved on 4 July 2008.
^ Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000

[1] White Meaning at Forebears

[2] "White Family History". Ancestry.com.

[3] "Irish Surname – White".

[4] Scottish Clans and their Tartans (1958), W. and A. K. Johnson, p. 22

[fbd-5] White Distribution at Forebears

[6] United States Census Bureau (9 May 1995). 1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1–100). Retrieved on 4 July 2008.

[7] Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000

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