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Name Applewhite
Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Edit Status Statusnot set

Meaning & History

Habitational name from a place named Applethwaite, from Old Norse apaldr ‘apple tree’ and þveit ‘meadow’. There are two or three such places in Cumbria; Applethwaite is also recorded as a surname from the 13th century in Suffolk, England, pointing to a possible lost place name there. The form Applewhite, now found predominantly in Lincolnshire, goes back to the 16th century in Suffolk. ADM.
Added 12/8/2015 by cutenose