Whitington Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Whitington is an established spelling of the English surname Whittington. At root, the name means “farm of Hwita's people”.

• About 258 people in the United States were recorded as Whitington in 2010, placing it 74,826 on the national list. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.
• Without the “t” of Whittington, Whitington is a simpler written form of the same name.
• Related forms: Whittingdon.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Whittington and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Whitington family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.