Whittaker Name Meaning: An Anglo-Saxon name taken from the the words 'hwit' meaning 'white' and 'aecer' meaning cultivated land/field'.
A name given to someone who worked or owned wheat fields or areas of land for cultivation. The surname may have also been taken from a place of a similar name.
Discover how your Whittaker ancestors earned their living and spread across the country. Find out more about your family history by using the Free Search box.Bedfordshire | 0 |
Buckinghamshire | 0 |
Berkshire | 0 |
Cambridgeshire | 14 |
Channel Islands | 7 |
Cheshire | 532 |
Cornwall | 12 |
Cumberland | 18 |
Derbyshire | 77 |
Devon | 14 |
Dorset | 1 |
Durham | 26 |
Essex | 35 |
Gloucestershire | 31 |
Hampshire | 10 |
Herefordshire | 22 |
Hertfordshire | 15 |
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) | 2 |
Isle of Man | 0 |
Kent | 31 |
Lancashire | 3,275 |
Leicestershire | 14 |
Lincolnshire | 105 |
London | 269 |
Middlesex | 4 |
Northumberland | 6 |
Norfolk | 54 |
Northamptonshire | 1 |
Nottinghamshire | 105 |
Oxfordshire | 5 |
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) | 2 |
Shropshire | 66 |
Suffolk | 12 |
Somerset | 54 |
Surrey | 4 |
Sussex | 6 |
Staffordshire | 242 |
Warwickshire | 42 |
Westmorland | 0 |
Wiltshire | 28 |
Worcestershire | 112 |
Yorkshire | 564 |
Anglesey | 0 |
Brecknockshire | 0 |
Cardiganshire | 3 |
Carnarvonshire | 0 |
Carmarthenshire | 1 |
Denbighshire | 11 |
Flintshire | 2 |
Glamorgan | 4 |
Merionethshire | 0 |
Montgomeryshire | 6 |
Monmouthshire | 21 |
Pembrokeshire | 0 |
Radnorshire | 0 |
Profession | Census Frequency |
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Scholar | 769 |
At Home | 107 |
Labourer | 84 |
House Servant | 73 |
Power Loom Weaver | 70 |
Agricultural Labourer | 66 |
Cotton Weaver | 66 |
Power Loom Weaver Cotton | 60 |
Weaver | 55 |
Dress Maker | 43 |
House Keeper | 42 |
Coal Miner | 37 |
Servant | 35 |
Hand Loom Weaver | 31 |
Cotton Spinner | 30 |
Hand Loom Weaver Silk | 29 |
Farm Labourer | 28 |
General Servant | 24 |
Annuitant | 23 |
Farmers Son | 22 |
Nurse | 21 |
Scholar At Home | 21 |
Silk Weaver | 21 |
Cotton Power Loom Weaver | 21 |
Mechanic | 21 |
Name | Census Frequency |
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Mary Whittaker | 6,831 |
John Whittaker | 6,342 |
William Whittaker | 4,946 |
James Whittaker | 4,293 |
Elizabeth Whittaker | 3,823 |
Thomas Whittaker | 3,416 |
Sarah Whittaker | 3,404 |
George Whittaker | 2,639 |
Ann Whittaker | 2,119 |
Alice Whittaker | 2,059 |
Joseph Whittaker | 1,792 |
Jane Whittaker | 1,767 |
Ellen Whittaker | 1,555 |
Robert Whittaker | 1,547 |
Henry Whittaker | 1,443 |
Margaret Whittaker | 1,372 |
Hannah Whittaker | 1,326 |
Annie Whittaker | 1,300 |
Martha Whittaker | 1,198 |
Charles Whittaker | 1,117 |
Richard Whittaker | 1,056 |
Emma Whittaker | 978 |
Samuel Whittaker | 952 |
Eliza Whittaker | 938 |
Edward Whittaker | 800 |