Whitstone

English

Etymology

From Old English hwīt (“white”) + stān (“stone”).

Proper noun

Whitstone (countable and uncountable, plural Whitstones)

1. A village and civil parish in north-east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2698).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Whitstone is the 88794^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 288 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Whitstone”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.