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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French teit ‘roof’ (from Latin tectum), also ‘hut’, ‘cottage’; the name therefore may have denoted someone who lived in a small cottage or it may have been an occupational name for a roofer.
  • French : habitational name from Duthoit, a hamlet in Nord.

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