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Meaning & History
Derived from a Dutch surname that was originally written as De Witt (it is common for Dutch immigrants to an English-speaking country to write their surname as one 'word', to make it easier to write for the citizens of that particular English-speaking country), it literally means "the white one". That means that the first bearer of the surname must have been a white-haired (or highly blond-haired) person. This surname is only used as a first name in English-speaking countries such as the USA, since the naming laws of both The Netherlands and Belgium (which is where Flanders is) don't allow for the use of surnames to be used as first names.