Willett Family History
Willett Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal names Wilot Wilet pet forms of Will itself a short form of William . English: sometimes a variant of Willard . English: perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Willet in Elworthy (Somerset). It is from an earlier name of Doniford Stream which rises at Willet and is probably a compound of Old English wiell will ‘spring’ + an unrecorded gīete ‘stream’. Variant of Willette 1 a surname of French origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022