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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so called from the genitive case of the Old English byname Fōt, meaning ‘foot’ (or the Old Norse cognate Fótr), + Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ (see Ditch).

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