Last Name WHITTLE

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Meaning	Local: Of Whittle, generally called Whittle-in-the-Woods, a township in the parish of Leyland, county Lancashire. There are also related hamlets in counties Northumberland and Derby. The name reached London in, or earlier than, the 17th century.

Origin	English, Irish, South african

Rank	4,592 (2000 US census)	3,273 (1990 US census)

Count	7,071 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

83.95%, or 5936 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
11.19%, or 791 total occurrences, as black,
0.49%, or 35 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.47%, or 33 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.08%, or 147 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.82%, or 129 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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