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Position:Home>Genealogy> What is the origin of this particular last name??Question: What is the origin of this particular last name??Can anyone tell me the origin of the last name WHITEHEAD? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Whitehead English and Scottish: nickname for someone with fair or prematurely white hair, from Middle English whit ??white?? + heved ??head??. Irish (Connacht): erroneous translation of 㓠Ceanndubh㡩n ??descendant of the little black-headed one?? (see Canavan), as if from Gaelic ceann ??head?? + b㡮 ??white??. Translated form of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf). |