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]

See also: Whyte (surname) and Wight (surname)

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

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  • Vanessa White (born 1989), British singer and songwriter
  • Vanna White (born 1957), American television personality
  • Verdine White (born 1951), American musician, younger brother of Maurice White, bass guitarist in Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Vince White (born 1960), English guitarist who replaced Joe Strummer in The Clash
  • Violetta Susan White (1875–1949), American mycologist

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References
  1. White Meaning at Forebears
  2. "White Family History".
  3. "Irish Surname – White".
  4. Scottish Clans and their Tartans (1958), W. and A. K. Johnson, p. 22
  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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