About the Witting Surname

Whether you spell it Witting or Witt, the story begins in the same place. Name scholars give the meaning as “White, fair-haired”.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Witt and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Spelling and variants

Witting adds -ing to the root of Witt, a familiar way of forming related surnames. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Witte, De Witt and Wittke.

530 Americans were listed as Witting in the 2010 census. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Whiting. For the full story, order the Witting surname pack.