Släkthistoria för Waithman
Waithman Vad efternamn betyder
from northern Middle English *waithman *wathman ‘hunter; forest outlaw’ (Old Scandinavian veiðimann the oblique stem of veiðimaðr with English and Scottish forms sometimes influenced by Old English wāð ‘hunting’). The word is recorded Scottish documents of the 15th and 16th centuries with reference to the biblical hunter Nimrod and to the legendary outlaw Robin Hood and his men. Surnames with this origin may have been confused with surnames belonging to (2).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
