Surname:Whitehead

Whitehead

1. English and Scottish: nickname for someone with fair or prematurely white hair, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + heved ‘head’.
2. Irish (Connacht): erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
3. Translated form of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf).

• Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Person:Isaac Whitehead (1)