Surname Wight (Wight 
, وايت 
, ไวท์ 
) , in all the world, is a common family name. The cognomen Wight is habitual in Bermuda, where it is quite a common surname, Malta, and Trinidad and Tobago, where it is quite a rare surname. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in the United States, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. Much less frequently, Wight is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Wight | Australia, Canada, Egypt, United Kingdom, United States |
| وايت | Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Syria |
| ไวท์ | Thailand |
| Уайт | Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine |
| thomas wight English book publisher (b. 1501) |
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| sarah wight English mystic (b. 1631) |
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| thomas wight Irish writer (b. 1640) |
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| elnathan wight (b. 1715) |
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| william wight Church of Scotland minister and university teacher (1731-1782), GB (b. 1730) |
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wight Scottish botanist (1796-1872), GB (b. 1796) |
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| henry wight Wight, Henry; D.D., Brown, 1824; b. 5/26/1752; d. 8/12/1837 (b. 1752) |
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orlando williams wight American physician (1824-1888) (b. 1824) |
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| john wight British Royal Navy officer (1776-?) (b. 1776) |
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peter bonnett wight American architect, US (b. 1838) |
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| marianne wight 5 Dec 1810 - 14 Jan 1882 (b. 1810) |
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emma howard wight American novelist and playwright (1863-1935), US (b. 1863) |
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| george wight (1817-1900) Congregational minister and journalist (b. 1817) |
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| william wight (b. 1810) |
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| j. ambrose wight (b. 1811) |
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