Witherspoon

English

Alternative forms

• Weatherspoon, Wotherspoon

Etymology

Scottish habitational surname, perhaps from Middle English wether (“ram”) + spong (“narrow strip of land”).

Proper noun

Witherspoon (plural Witherspoons)

1. A surname from Middle English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Witherspoon is the 2736^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13171 individuals. Witherspoon is most common among Black/African American (62.08%) and White (32.12%) individuals.

Further reading

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