English
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Etymology
Place name from Middle English atten whiten ey "by the white island".
Proper noun
Whitney
- A habitational surname.
- given name|female derived from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
References
Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
Category:English surnames
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