Name: Whittaker

Gender: Male

Usage: Whittaker, of anglo-saxon origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Whittaker are in general originating from United Kingdom, United States of America.

Name Meaning of Whittaker

Meaning: The meaning of the name Whittaker is: White land, White field.

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Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Whittaker: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone

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Popularity of the Name

The name Whittaker is ranked on the 75,388th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.

We estimate that there are at least 900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Whittaker has nine characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.

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History and Origin

Whittaker is a surname and given name, also spelled "Whitaker" and "Whitacre," and may refer to:

As a surname
  • Aaron Whittaker, New Zealand rugby player
  • Bill Whittaker (footballer), English footballer
  • Bill Whittaker (bowls), New Zealand lawn bowler
  • Bob Whittaker U.S. Congressman
  • Charles Evans Whittaker (1901–1973), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court from 1957 to 1962
  • David Whittaker (video game composer) (born 1957), computer game programmer
  • Dick Whittaker (1934–1998), Irish footballer
  • E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956), English mathematician
  • Enos Whittaker, English footballer
  • Frank Whittaker, Indian bishop
  • Gavin Whittaker, Canadian politician
  • George Whittaker, Canadian Politician
  • Jack Whittaker (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
  • Jack Whittaker (lottery winner) (born 1947), American US$315 million lottery winner
  • James Whittaker, Shaker leader
  • Jim Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, first American to summit Mount Everest (1963), twin brother of Lou
  • Jodie Whittaker, English actress
  • John Whittaker (UKIP politician) (born 1945), British member of the European Parliament
  • John Avery Whittaker, fictional character in the Adventures in Odyssey radio series
  • John Macnaughten Whittaker, English mathematician
  • Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, 19th century West Point student and victim of assault
  • Joseph Whittaker (botanist) (1813-1894), English botanist and collector of Australian plants
  • Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, U.S. blues musician
  • Lou Whittaker (born 1929), American mountaineer, high-altitude and glacier-travel guide, twin brother of Jim
  • Maria Whittaker (born 1969), former English glamour model
  • Rebecca Whittaker, Canadian politician
  • Red Whittaker, robot scientist
  • Robert Whittaker (1920–1980), American vegetation ecologist
  • Roger Whittaker (born 1936), British-born Kenyan singer/songwriter and musician
  • Sally Whittaker (born 1963), British soap opera actress
  • Steven Whittaker (born 1984), Scottish footballer
  • Stuart Whittaker (born 1975) English football player
  • Thomas Whittaker (martyr) English Catholic martyr
  • Thomas Palmer Whittaker, British politician
  • Tom Whittaker (footballer) (1898–1956), English football player, trainer, and manager
  • Tom Whittaker (mountaineer) (born 1948), mountaineer, first disabled person to summit Mount Everest
  • Walter Whittaker (1878 - 1917), English football goalkeeper with Newton Heath (Manchester United), Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Derby County
  • Victor P. Whittaker (born 1919) a British biochemist who pioneered the studies on the subcellular fractionation of the brain
  • Millicent Mona Whittaker(1924-2006)Farm Hand Toowoomba had 7 children married Wyndom Snow Whittaker 1943
  • Wyndom Snow Whittaker Known as Snow (1922-1978)Married Millicent Whittaker pound keeper and farm hand died 56 had 24 grandchildren (one deceased) 28 great grandchildren (Toowoomba Ipswich chinchilla kilcoy esk toogoolawah colinton crows nest places snow grow up in)
As a given name
  • Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), American writer, witness in Alger Hiss espionage case

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