Where Does the Waight Surname Come From?

Waight is an established spelling of the English surname Waite. The family name meaning is “watchman”, the same as for Waite.

Spelling and variants

Before spelling was fixed, Waite was also written Waight. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Wait, Wayt and Wayte.

Waight by the numbers

Waight ranked 40,976 in the 2010 US Census, with 532 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Wight.

Heraldry and the Waight name

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Waite surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Get the complete Waight report, with a museum-style coat of arms.