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In the Genealogy section of About.com the surname White is of English, Scottish, and Irish origin. Alternate spellings of White are Whyte, Whiet, Wight, and Whytte. Here is the link to check it out: http://genealogy.about.com/od/surname_meaning/p/white/htm.
White Americans are Americans who are descendants from any of the white racial groups of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or in census statistics, those who self-report as white based on having majority-white ancestry. The United States Census Bureau defines white people as those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. Like all official U.S. racial categories, White has a not Hispanic or Latino and a Hispanic or Latino componen