Wayt: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Waite and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Wayt is how some branches of the Waite family came to write their name. In origin, the name means “The watchman or lookout, especially a watchman in a castle or fortified place”.

Records show Wayt as one of the forms Waite took over time. Related forms: Wayte, Wait and Waight. The 2010 census count for Wayt in the United States was 811, good for rank 29,198. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Watt.

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