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Family name Whitney (Whitney , ויטני , Уитни , among others...) , worldwide, is a common last name. The family name Whitney is characteristic of the United States, where it is quite a common surname, Barbados, where it is quite a rare surname, and Bahamas. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. More frequently, Whitney is the forename as well as the last name.