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The surname Whiting is of Saxon origin meaning 'the white or fair offspring'. The Saxon suffix "-ing" denotes 'son of' or 'offspring'. It is a patronymic name from the Old English pre 7th Century 'Hwita' meaning 'the white' or 'fair one'. The surname first appears in the late 11th Century and has a number of variant forms ranging from 'Whiteing', and 'Whitting' to 'Witting'. The name was first found in Devon where it was seated both before and after the Norman Conquest. ==Persons== In Great Britain, there are an estimated 3,169 with the surname Whiting. According to the 1990 U.S. Census, Whiting is the 2,565th most popular surname in the United States, carried by 0.005% of the population. *Alan Whiting, British screenwriter *Andrea Whiting, fictional character on the American soap opera ''Search for Tomorrow'' *Ant Whiting, writer/producer signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing *Barbara Whiting Smith (1931–2004), American actress *Betty Whiting (1925–1967), American baseball player *Brandon Whiting (born 1976), former American football player *Brendan Whiting 1936–2009, Australian author and researcher *Charles Whiting (1926–2007), British writer and military historian *Charles Whiting (cricketer) (1888–1959), English cricketer *Charlie Whiting (born 1952), FIA Formula One race director *Cliff Whiting (born 1936), New Zealand Maori artist *Danny Whiting, fictional character in BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' *Ed Whiting (1860–?), American professional baseball player *Frederic Whiting (1874–1962), English painter *Gains Whiting (1865–1946), New Zealand trade unionist and political activist *George Whiting (1840–1923), American composer of classical music *George A. Whiting (1884–1943), American vaudeville song and dance man *Henry H. Whiting (born 1923), member of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the 1980s and 90s *Jack Whiting (1894–1975), English cricketer *James Whiting (born 1949), known professionally as Sugar Blue, American blues harmonica player *James R. Whiting (1803–1872), New York judge *Jillian Whiting, Australian news presenter *Jim Whiting (born 1951), British artist and inventor *Justin Rice Whiting (1847–1903), politician from Michigan *John Whiting (1917–1963), John Robert Whiting, English dramatist and critic *John Whiting (anthropologist) (1908–1999), John Wesley Mayhew Whiting, American anthropologist *Justin Rice Whiting (1847–1903), Michigan politician *Ken Whiting (born 1974), Canadian kayaker *Kenneth Whiting (1881–1943), United States Navy officer and American pioneer of naval aviation *Leonard Whiting (born 1950), British actor *Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), American journalist and author *Lorenzo D. Whiting (1819–1889), American politician *Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), traditional pop music singer, daughter of Richard A. Whiting *Mark Whiting (born 1964), American writer, director, designer and actor *Michael F. Whiting, American director of the Brigham Young University DNA Sequencing Center *Napoleon Whiting (1910–1984), African-American character actor *Nathan Whiting (1724–1771), soldier and merchant in colonial America *Nathaniel N. Whiting (1792–1872), American Baptist preacher *Norman Whiting (born 1920), English former cricketer *Peter Whiting, New Zealand association football player *Richard Whiting (abbot) (died 1539), last abbot of Glastonbury Abbey before Dissolution of the Monasteries *Richard Whiting (rugby league), English rugby league player *Richard A. Whiting (1891–1938), writer of popular songs, father of Margaret Whiting and Barbara Whiting Smith *Richard H. Whiting (1826–1888), U.S. Representative from Illinois *Robert Whiting (born 1942), American author and journalist *Roy Whiting (born 1959), English murderer of Sarah Payne *Rutherford Lester Whiting (born 1930), Canadian politician *Samuel Whiting, Jr. (1633–1733), First Minister of Billerica, Massachusetts *Sarah Whiting, Dean of the Rice University School of Architecture *Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927), American physicist and astronomer *Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, feminist scholar *Walter Whiting (1888–1952), English cricketer *William Whiting (footballer), English footballer *William Whiting (poet) (1825–1878), English writer and hymnist, wrote the words to ''Eternal Father, Strong to Save'' (The Navy Hymn) *William Whiting (politician) (1813–1873), American congressman from Massachusetts *William Whiting II (politician) (1841–1911), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts *William F. Whiting (1864–1936), William Fairfield Whiting, Massachusetts politician, United States Secretary of Commerce 1928–1929 *William H. C. Whiting (1824–1865), William Henry Chase Whiting, American Civil War army officers 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whiting (surname)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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