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English : status name from Middle English knyghte â€˜knightâ€™, Old English cniht â€˜boyâ€™, â€˜youthâ€™, â€˜serving ladâ€™. This word was used as a personal name before the Norman Conquest, and the surname may in part reflect a survival of this. It is also possible that in a few cases it represents a survival of the Old English sense into Middle English, as an occupational name for a domestic servant. In most cases, however, it clearly comes from the more exalted sense that the word achieved in the Middle Ages. In the feudal system introduced by the Normans the word was applied at first to a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier. Hence it came to denote a man of some substance, since maintaining horses and armor was an expensive business. As feudal obligations became increasingly converted to monetary payments, the term lost its precise significance and came to denote an honorable estate conferred by the king on men of noble birth who had served him well. Knights in this last sense normally belonged to ancient noble families with distinguished family names of their own, so that the surname is more likely to have been applied to a servant in a knightly house or to someone who had played the part of a knight in a pageant or won the title in some contest of skill.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire â€˜son of the rider or knightâ€™. See also McKnight.

Waight

Surname or Lastname

English

Waight

English : variant spelling of Waite.

Waight

Wright

Boy/Male

English American Anglo Saxon

Craftsman.

Height

Surname or Lastname

English

Height

English : variant spelling of Hight.

Height

DWIGHT

Male

English

DWIGHT

English surname transferred to forename use, from the feminine personal name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, DWIGHT means "follower of Dionysos."Â

DWIGHT

Dwight

Surname or Lastname

English

English : from Diot, a pet form of the female personal name Dye. Reaney also suggests that this may also be an altered form of Thwaite (see Thwaites).Timothy Dwight (1752â€“1817), Congregational divine, author, and president of Yale College (1795â€“1817), was the dominant figure in the established order of CT. He was born in Northampton, MA, a descendant of John Dwight who came from Dedham, England, in 1635 and settled in Dedham, MA, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the great theologian of American Puritanism.

Dwight

Boy/Male

Christian & English(British/American/Australian)

White or Fair

Knight

Boy/Male

American, British, English

Noble; Soldier

Dwight

Boy/Male

Teutonic American Dutch Flemish English

White.

Wright

Surname or Lastname

English, Scottish, and northern Irish

English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta â€˜craftsmanâ€™ (a derivative of wyrcan â€˜to work or makeâ€™). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit â€˜rightâ€™, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.